maxwell wrote: ...have had my philosophy reinforced by constantly listening to the deafening cheers whenever an English team loses.
Well, to be fair, it does always kind of surprise me that English people seem so keen to support the other home nations at sport, considering the contempt with which the rest of the UK hold the English sports teams!
I cannot really speak for the Welsh or the Irish, but I can tell you that nary a Scotland match passes without a rousing chorus of "We hate Jimmy Hill. He's a poof, he's a poof!" pouring down from the stands.
But come on Maxwell. Should one not be above such petty squabbling? It is precisely this "I don't care what they say, I'll support the kilt wearing heathens anyway" attitude that riles the Scots so, and no amount of abuse should budge the English from that position. Otherwise, where will we all be?
The natural order of the world as we know it will crumble and all that will remain will be Jimmy Hill's blood stained chin protruding from a crumpled mass that once was our healthy, neighbourly, historically appropriate love-hate relationship.
All together now: "We hate Jimmy Hill..."