Chadwick wrote:blythburgh wrote:Sad result, the game came 4 years too soon for our team IMHO
So they should be ready for next time. You've got to start somewhere.
blythburgh wrote:At least by missing a match with France it will stop the French haters in the country from making trouble. Too many in the Leave and Remain camps have never forgiven De Gaulle for his attitude to the country that took him in and gave it back its freedom, others cannot forget the many, many times we have been at war with them.
Really? People still have a vendetta against Napoleon?
de Gaulle saying "non" was over 50 years ago. Are there people really still bitter enough about that to 'make trouble'. They must have lead a difficult life harbouring that grievance for 5 decades.
Yes, some people do not like the French because they were brought up to dislike them by their parents. I know someone who does not like the Frrench because of his Grandfather's influence. I know someone else who will not buy anything Japanese because of WW2 and how some local people were fighting them in WW2 and we all know what happened to anyone unfortunate to be a prisoner of them.
Me, I freel that was then and this is now, a new generation of Germans, Japanese etc.
Others will see any excuse for fighting someone. Just ask anyone of colour who has been verbally abused for being the colour they are. Ask any immigrant working here who has been verbally abused for being here. Ask anyone who has been verbally abused just for the religion they follow or are suspected of following. And sadly too many of them can tell you of the time when the verbal attack became a physical one.
Keep smiling because the light at the end of someone's tunnel may be you, Ron Cheneler