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It's some kind of English disease that any English crowd always sees fit to boo the opposition's National Anthem, no matter what the sport :angry:

It's a fucking disgrace, and I wish something could be done about it, but I don't know what can be done.

It's embarrassing :(

Anyway, don't take it personally, they do it to everyone :frusty:
 
They were probably booing the ideal of nationalism, embodied in the national anthem. It was clearly a call to bring down the barriers dividing humanity into nation states. What better place to do do this? They obviously saw the boxers as pawns in a cruel game trapped in a ring, forced to battle each other, but for what? They identified with their struggle, and triumphantly denounced the spectacle, and showed it for what it really was, an absurd and futile facade.
 
dinsdale said:
They were probably booing the ideal of nationalism, embodied in the national anthem. It was clearly a call to bring down the barriers dividing humanity into nation states. What better place to do do this? They obviously saw the boxers as pawns in a cruel game trapped in a ring, forced to battle each other, but for what? They identified with their struggle, and triumphantly denounced the spectacle, and showed it for what it really was, an absurd and futile facade.
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Top post! :lol:
 
Chip Monk said:
Us Irish don't do stuff like that.
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That's because we can't even decide what our national anthem is.

At N .Ireland matches, half the crowd stands for God Save The Queen and the other half boos.

If N. Ireland is supposed to be a country in it's own right, why does it have to be the English national anthem? The rest of the UK has their own song.

A lot of people have been suggesting that it should be Danny Boy/Londonderry Air.
 
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