Honest question based on this. What would you poms do if England played Ireland? Would you cheer on a team that (hypothetically) included McShane, Quinn, Meyler, Brady and Long, or would you be patriotic and support Rooney, Jagielka, Gerrard and Lampard? It's my dilemma having Jedinak in the Aussie team, but I don't suspect we'll play Ireland in the short term.
England. And don't call me a pom, Nigel. I'm English, doesn't matter if half my club team was playing against us.
I was well pissed off when Brady's Bunch was supporting Scotland against just for Boyd and McGregor (this was before he revealed he was half Jock)
Why does pom offend, out of interest? I've always thought it was a good natured nickname. I'm half Irish so I have that excuse going for me. Supported them when they beat Aus in the rugby the other year.
Is that the actual definition? Heard a few variants, including Prisoner Of His Majesty (POHM). Which may sound strange, but I suppose they (the Anglo born Australians) were originally pohms.
Convict doesn't even bother me, especially when I do have a convict in my heritage... was told growing up that he was a highway robber, then found out he actually just skipped out on a hotel bill. My entire sense of identity was shattered.
Yawn Yawn Yawn. What a waste of time. It should just be the 6 group winners - the hosts and the best runner up to the finals. imo. The finals should then be 2 groups of 4 with the 2 group winners and the 2 runners up to the semi's end of. imo
It's actually just an abbreviation of pomegranate. 'Pom' - Michael Quinion's World Wide Words... "It is now pretty well accepted that the pomegranate theory is close to the truth, though there's a slight twist to take note of. HJ Rumsey wrote about it in 1920 in the introduction to his book The Pommies, or New Chums in Australia. He suggested that the word began life on the wharves in Melbourne as a form of rhyming slang. An immigrant was at first called a Jimmy Grant (was there perhaps a famous real person by that name around at the time?), but over time this shifted to Pommy Grant, perhaps as a reference to pomegranate, because the new chums did burn in the sun. Later pommy became a word on its own and was frequently abbreviated still further. The pomegranate theory was also given some years earlier in The Anzac Book of 1916. "Whatever your beliefs about this one, what seems to be true is that the term is not especially old, dating from the end of the nineteenth century at the earliest, certainly not so far back as convict ship days".
Headline of the day. ""The Group of Dearth"" in the Sun today re.Englands group and the lack of quality in it.
What a strange question. I can't imagine anyone who claims they're an England fan would ever support another team playing against us, regardless of who's on the opposition team. I'm actually baffled as to how you can even ask that question Syd heh. Sure, we'll moan and bitch about them, but they're our team, no one else is.
I supported Southampton, Man U and Chelsea when we played them as they have more England regulars/hopefuls than we do. I want to see the England lads do well.
