England players taking their medals off

[Nocountryforoldjack]

This sums the whole thing up for me... Totally unsportsman like, fans booing national anthems, rioting in the streets and breaking into Wembley. Its all driven by hatred and nationalism. And then the abuse of their own players. It's a game ffs.

 

[DJack]

Did Sterling throw his dramatically onto the ground?

:smile: Oddly enough he walked away wearing it, for how long I'm not sure as we didn't get to see.

 

[CurtessECarr]

Great sportsmen who do that. Will the kids who play in schools and local football follow their heroes lose in a final and throw them away? I've got a few runners up medals from local football from 40 years ago and still cherish them. Why did they bother going up?

 

[Niigata Jack]

They are disappointed mun Dar.

Init, nothing to see here move along. Just the Pross making a mountain out of a molehill :roll: only time he ever reached the heights of second was being second in the groupie's race to Cheap Tricks dressing room and that was one time only :lol: :lol:

 

[Darran]

They are disappointed mun Dar.

Init, nothing to see here move along. Just the Pross making a mountain out of a molehill :roll: only time he ever reached the heights of second was being second in the groupie's race to Cheap Tricks dressing room and that was one time only :lol: :lol:

Grow up Porky.

 

[Niigata Jack]

This sums the whole thing up for me... Totally unsportsman like, fans booing national anthems, rioting in the streets and breaking into Wembley. Its all driven by hatred and nationalism. And then the abuse of their own players. It's a game ffs.

When you put it like that, I agree. England's football fans have always been a stain on the game, I'd like to think they are in the minority though, but who knows.

That video that was being shown, about a bar owner collecting all the broken tables and chairs, whilst being surrounded by them and they weren't satisfied with wrecking them all, one thug stuck one on the guy, cowards when there's numbers on their side, as was proved again last night. 19 Police officers injured it the troubles last night as well.

 

[Badlands]

This sums the whole thing up for me... Totally unsportsman like, fans booing national anthems, rioting in the streets and breaking into Wembley. Its all driven by hatred and nationalism. And then the abuse of their own players. It's a game ffs.

Nationalists from Wales (and most countries) are driven by love of country; nationalists in England are driven by hatred of pretty much everything except symbols of their nationalism and anything that doesn't conform to their perception of Anglo Saxon superiority.

 

[RevJames]

Happens with losers at every single final. Shock horror, but even our players didn't celebrate the losers medal at Wembley last month.

Nothing to see here mun.

This. Italy would have done exactly the same if the result was reversed.

It sends out the wrong message in terms of presenting positive sporting values - especially to young, aspiring competitors in any sport, who are often influenced by what they see from their role models.

 

[NeathJack]

Tells you everything.
Arrogant twáts.

Happens with losers at every single final. Shock horror, but even our players didn't celebrate the losers medal at Wembley last month.

Nothing to see here mun.

Since when were there losers medals at the play off final?

 

[Evanski]

All Blacks players wore their bronze medals with pride after they beat Wales at the last RWC, and there’s a team who could justifiably be disappointed at coming third. The English players took their silver medals off after losing the RWC final. I see a recurring theme here.

 

[Darran]

All Blacks players wore their bronze medals with pride after they beat Wales at the last RWC, and there’s a team who could justifiably be disappointed at coming third. The English players took their silver medals off after losing the RWC final. I see a recurring theme here.

Superb post.

 

[JackSomething]

All Blacks players wore their bronze medals with pride after they beat Wales at the last RWC, and there’s a team who could justifiably be disappointed at coming third. The English players took their silver medals off after losing the RWC final. I see a recurring theme here.

I don't know why I keep coming back to this as I don't really care if people want to be outraged by such a minor thing (especially when so many more valid reasons to be glad England lost were established over the last few weeks), but have to point out a pretty massive difference here.

The England footballers received medals immediately after losing the Euros final. New Zealand received their bronze medals immediately after winning the bronze medal match, a whole 6 days after losing in the semi final. Pretty huge difference in receiving a medal after winning a match (even one of lesser importance) than after losing the biggest match of your career.

If the England players received medals after losing in the final to South Africa, but wore them with pride, that would be an excellent comparison.

 

[Darran]

All Blacks players wore their bronze medals with pride after they beat Wales at the last RWC, and there’s a team who could justifiably be disappointed at coming third. The English players took their silver medals off after losing the RWC final. I see a recurring theme here.

I don't know why I keep coming back to this as I don't really care if people want to be outraged by such a minor thing (especially when so many more valid reasons to be glad England lost were established over the last few weeks), but have to point out a pretty massive difference here.

The England footballers received medals immediately after losing the World Cup final. New Zealand received their bronze medals immediately after winning the bronze medal match, a whole 6 days after losing in the semi final. Pretty huge difference in receiving a medal after winning a match (even one of lesser importance) than after losing the biggest match of your career.

If the England players received medals after losing in the final to South Africa, but wore them with pride, that would be an excellent comparison.

England haven’t played in the World Cup final since 1966. :lol:

 

[JackBaston]

Winning bronze and losing gold are 2 different things
As competitive athletes they're going to be annoyed on the day, Im sure in a year or so, maybe longer theyll appreciate how well they did but on the night you cant expect them to be happy when they failed

 

[Darran]

Winning bronze and losing gold are 2 different things
As competitive athletes they're going to be annoyed on the day, Im sure in a year or so, maybe longer theyll appreciate how well they did but on the night you cant expect them to be happy when they failed

On the other hand they could be happy that they achieved their highest finish in any tournament since 1066.

(not a typo)