am i the only one who hopes

[Peevis]

Awwww don't be putting your fellow fatties down like that, you/they have worked hard eating all those pies so can fill as much of the goals as possible and prevent us non-thinkers from blasting the ball past them.

[ronaldo]

yup, we have a flag and a song and everything

[brighteyes]

Ah yes... the Welsh. Another race over-compensating types, who bleat (geddit! ) too loudly about their country to cover up the fact it is in fact, shite..

Proud to be Welsh, but you come from London.

[sifi]

and a world beating tennis hero

[Peevis]

and a world beating tennis hero

[ronaldo]

You know you are..

Are we on the right level for you now?

Good.

[ronaldo]

Indeed...

someone at number six in the world..

Two less than that posh twat Henman..

Be proud Scotland, your hero is not quite as good as Henman.

Three cheers for the bloke almost as good as someone not very good!

woo!

[Radar]

Ah yes... the Welsh. Another race over-compensating types, who bleat (geddit! ) too loudly about their country to cover up the fact it is in fact, shite..

Proud to be Welsh, but you come from London.

[DrDoolittle]

Can I just state here for the record that Tim Henman was a fantastic tennis player (to those who know anything about tennis).

If Stevie Gerrard is ever good enough to be rated at 4th best player in the world then its safe to assume he'd be fantastic too. (but maybe not at tennis).

[Radar]

Wales is awesome... (I'm not Welsh).

[Peevis]

Yes yes Peevis... I've heard it all before, and will happily stick it down your throat with a grenade attached!

I don't "come from" London, I "live in" London! I suppose you're from a "hollowed-out island" or live in one do you?! Numpty!!!

[Peevis]

If it helps you at all..

Scousers are even worse.

Boris was SO right. Greif addicted, support group twats who were thrown out of Ireland for being so f**king annoying!

[worm]

I agree entirely. Although to be fair Mansell did manage one thing hugely significant thing that Senna didn't. He walked away.

[King Blue]

But the point is, Scotland is a country.

[Radar]

But if you are a "proud" Welshman, why would you want to live in Evil England?

I don't geddit? Surely you either love the place and stay and make it better, or you move.

I have no issue with you moving at all. It's a round world. just be consistent!

[Peevis]

But its not.It hasn't been for centuries.A lot of Scots waste their time being bitter towards the English when there's no point.We speak the same language,share essentially the same sort of culture and suffer from the same problems. We really ain't that different.

[King Blue]

To the Welsh credit,they still have their own language,which marks them out as being slightly more different than the Scots IMO. Anyway,England doesn't exactly occupy Scotland,it was called the act of union for a reason .We joined as brothers!

[sifi]

That's because he lacked commitment.

[Peevis]

To the Welsh credit,they still have their own language,which marks them out as being slightly more different than the Scots IMO. Anyway,England doesn't exactly occupy Scotland,it was called the act of union for a reason .We joined as brothers!

[ronaldo]

But its not.It hasn't been for centuries.A lot of Scots waste their time being bitter towards the English when there's no point.We speak the same language,share essentially the same sort of culture and suffer from the same problems. We really ain't that different.

[Radar]

But its not.It hasn't been for centuries.A lot of Scots waste their time being bitter towards the English when there's no point.We speak the same language,share essentially the same sort of culture and suffer from the same problems. We really ain't that different.

[worm]

But its not.It hasn't been for centuries.A lot of Scots waste their time being bitter towards the English when there's no point.We speak the same language,share essentially the same sort of culture and suffer from the same problems. We really ain't that different.

[greeneyes1980]

I don't think you can accuse Mansell of lacking committment. Il tifiosi didn't call him "il leone" for nothing buddy.

[Peevis]

What is a country to you, "King" Blue?! ( ) I would say that it was as much abstract concept as concrete apparatus of state. We don't get patriotic and cream ourselves over systems of governance, constitutions and legislature (unless we're very odd!) - what stirs passions is a feeling of belonging, and you just have to accept that a significant proportion of Scots and Welsh people have a deep set feeling that they are not the same as or an intrinsic part of England. Britain was a good stab at a false concoction of nationhood but many don't feel that like they feel their individual nationality.

Sifi will back me up here - when Italy didn't exist, it took the rhetoric of Mazzini et al to create a feeling of Italian nationality some years before Garibaldi and his troops took the military action required to unify the territory, set up the state etc.

[worm]

I don't think you can accuse Mansell of lacking committment.