Originally posted by mtthw
Sports forum? Really? 🙂
oh my dear friend, i had no intention whatsoever of reaching the depraved depths of nationalism, truly, you must realise that there is a history here, the tragic effects of the union of the crowns, the break up of the clan systems after the battle of Culloden, the highland clearances between 1700s and 1860s (not that long ago) the memories of which are still reverberating in the people to this day, you cannot dismiss it out of hand. A whole fabric of society was killed off, people shipped off to the new world. if you go to the highlands of Scotland you will see, scattered throughout the hills and glens, the remnants of houses, entire villages forced from their homes. Now, we are not so naive as to suggest for one moment that it was the result of our cousins across the border, but it was the direct consequence of the break up of the clan system, systematically destroyed by the British government. this cannot be denied. Until you can understand this, you shall have a merely superficial view, and lay the blame on some kind of perverted nationalism, it could not be further from the truth.
i myself visit Yorkshire every Christmas time, because we have friends there that we love to see, yes they are complete Angles, but we love them deeply.
you are correct, this type of thing is best reserved for the debates forum, but i lay the blame directly upon the insidious trev33, who laid the tracks, from whence we now stand.
You must forgive our little indulgences, deep down I cannot explain why we love to see you getting tanked, we just do. 🙂