It’s all the anti Irish stuff I can’t abide. Can you believe, some people try to make out they are all a bit thick.
Well there's the difference 20/20, we can take a bit of banter and laugh it off, unlike our darker counterparts who would have reported your comments to Diane Abbott. Just don't mention the potatoes.
I always liked the joke: Paddy: Doctor, do you treat alcoholics? Doctor: of course I do, I’m glad you came to me Paddy: so am I. There’s a pub opposite, I’ll start with a pint and a whisky chaser The old ones are the best.
I am interested to read why anyone thinks a bunch of men throwing around Nazi salutes is not an issue to be taken seriously. Very simple, the Bulgarians should have had a sufficient law enforcement presence to simply go into the stands and arrest the lot of them. It’s not like it was a surprise that they could not be prepared for. Anyone watch the Netflix series about British Football Hooligans yet? I am currently watching the Yorkshire episode.
In his autobiography, Silent Gesture, Smith stated that the gesture was not a "Black Power" salute but rather a "human rights" salute.
Agreed, Jonny, & I've got a feeling that the 'arrest show' we've just watched will fizzle out. Reason? Prolly no law against it +/or sympathy in high places in Bulgaria. Betcha we hear nothing else about it ....
Interesting Bulgaria was unique in protecting its Jews, despite being a Nazi sympathetic country. https://www.washingtonpost.com/life...66bdda-8cb1-11e2-9838-d62f083ba93f_story.html