The Final

Nero

Nero

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Has anyone seen the Netflix documentary about the European Championship Final in 2021?

What a total embarrassment by the fans at Wembley that day. I hope England does not stage a main international final for a long time.

For anyone going to Germany this time. Please don’t shout, or chant “footballs coming home”. That is now cringeworthy.
 
Me and my family happened to start a short break in London, unfortunately on the day of the final. The scenes on the trains going down, the scenes outside the train station and then all around the centre of London were abysmal. Blood, p*ss and broken glass everywhere. By 6pm I was hoping England lost just to kill their buzz.

My two 6 year olds were seeing stuff they shouldn't have to in a modern city. Blokes p*ssing in any doorway they could find. Fellas getting stitches in head wounds from St John's. People throwing bottles into the air to see if they could get them to land on passer-by heads. We don't deserve to host a final again until we can prove we're no longer neanderthals.
 
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SmogOnTheTees said:
Me and my family happened to start a short break in London, unfortunately on the day of the final. The scenes on the trains going down, the scenes outside the train station and then all around the centre of London were abysmal. Blood, p*ss and broken glass everywhere. By 6pm I was hoping England lost just to kill their buzz.

My two 6 year olds were seeing stuff they shouldn't have to in a modern city. Blokes ******* in any doorway they could find. Fellas getting stitches in head wounds from St John's. People throwing bottles into the air to see if they could get them to land on passer-by heads. We don't deserve to host a final again until we can prove we're no longer neanderthals.
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Sorry for your experience mate. Sounds awful.

I didn’t watch the whole documentary, but people interviewed blaming lockdown for their behaviour. It’s not lockdown that resulted in people drinking from 8am and causing total chaos.

English football fans are their absolute worst.
 
I remember watching Sky Sports News on the morning and mid-day, and you could see it was all going to end in tears.

Thing is it wasn't even just London, there's a pub round the corner from me and straight after the last penalty, loads of people spilled out into our road and lads were fighting, lasses screaming, someone pulled a knife out according to what we heard the next day from neighbours.

I had COVID at the time so I was housebound, glad I didn't go out like I initially was going to.
 
Nero said:
Sorry for your experience mate. Sounds awful.

I didn’t watch the whole documentary, but people interviewed blaming lockdown for their behaviour. It’s not lockdown that resulted in people drinking from 8am and causing total chaos.

English football fans are their absolute worst.
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I think it's very naive to not think that the aftermath of Covid played a major part in the shameful behaviour that day.

People had only been allowed back inside pubs for a month before the final, and that was with restrictions, and after a year of being forced to stay at home except for work.

England's first major final since 1966, and the fact that it was public knowledge that there were over 20,000 empty seats in the stadium for the biggest footballing event in this country in decades, it was inevitable that there would be problems.

It doesn't excuse their behaviour, but I think the impact of Covid undoubtedly helps explain it.
 
TeaCider said:
I think it's very naive to not think that the aftermath of Covid played a major part in the shameful behaviour that day.

People had only been allowed back inside pubs for a month before the final, and that was with restrictions, and after a year of being forced to stay at home except for work.

England's first major final since 1966, and the fact that it was public knowledge that there were over 20,000 empty seats in the stadium for the biggest footballing event in this country in decades, it was inevitable that there would be problems.

It doesn't excuse their behaviour, but I think the impact of Covid undoubtedly helps explain it.
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Naive? I’ve worked in loads of countries and know loads of other nationalities. I can pretty much guarantee others would not have behaved like drugged up boozed up selfish b***ds that day.

It had been building throughout the competition. England fans disgracefully booing national anthems and showing aggression to Danish fans in the Semi Final. Twitter full of Nazi insults after beating Germany in the second round. None of that was lockdown.

Charging the stadium because of empty seats is shocking. That is a culture of “jibbing” that has been around in English football a long time. Man United and Liverpool fan in particular have been known for it.

In the documentary someone describes areas of Wembley where dangerous crushes were starting to form. It’s like nothing has been learnt.
 
Nero said:
Has anyone seen the Netflix documentary about the European Championship Final in 2021?

What a total embarrassment by the fans at Wembley that day. I hope England does not stage a main international final for a long time.

For anyone going to Germany this time. Please don’t shout, or chant “footballs coming home”. That is now cringeworthy.
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I'm going to one of the England games. Why can't i sing "footballs coming home"? Genuine question, its not offensive is it?
 
BornIn86 said:
I'm going to one of the England games. Why can't i sing "footballs coming home"? Genuine question, it’s not offensive is it?
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Do you not think it’s a bit cringeworthy now?

It motivates other teams against England and has generally started to seem like English exceptionalism.

It was a good song in 1996 and captured the mood perfectly. That was almost 30 years ago. Time to stop using it in my opinion.
 
I woke up really optimistic and excited for the game but by the time it kicked off it was ******* down, London was carpeted with broken glass and people were storming the stadium to get it for free and intimidating families with tickets and I could barely have been less interested in the game. Just left a really sour taste and ruined an event I'd been hoping for for 35 years.
 
Nero said:
Do you not think it’s a bit cringeworthy now?

It motivates other teams against England and has generally started to seem like English exceptionalism.

It was a good song in 1996 and captured the mood perfectly. That was almost 30 years ago. Time to stop using it in my opinion.
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Yeah its a bit cringeworthy but it always has been. Nothing wrong with that if its not offensive.

If there were any better England songs then perhaps it would get dropped but most of the time you only hear "Come on England".
 
Nero said:
For anyone going to Germany this time. Please don’t shout, or chant “footballs coming home”. That is now cringeworthy.
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The gap between the original song in '96 and Jules Rimet still gleaming in '66 is almost the same as the gap between '96 and now.
I feel old. '30 yrs of hurt' is now '58 years of hurt'.
 
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