Doesnt mean there is anything wrong with it either.
Its funny because I find it funny, its funny because its banter and at football I like the banter. Also football has been tribal since it inception, football songs are sung to taunt the opposition always has...whats different with this song?
Do you not find the Fawlty Towers episode about the Germans starting the war funny? Its the same banter for me thats why I like it
If you dont find it funny or relevant to football fine, please dont question me as to why I do.
I dont walk down the street singing any football song out loud, so what relevance does it have as to whether id sing this chant walking down the road??
And please, thick and neanderthal if we sing it? Im neither and like I say have sung it and started it internationals.
More of the offended on behalf of
My point was, you wouldn't go around singing it anywhere else, so why feel the need to at the football. You probably wouldn't go up to a German in the street and say it either.
I'm not offended at all by it, or offended on behalf of anyone. In both of these recent publicized incidents, someone on the receiving end has complained. It stops being banter then in my opinion.
Anyway, I've enjoyed the debate, but we'll continue to go around in circles here as we have different opinions. I just think it has no relevance in football, and has rightly been publicly criticised.
I presume the people that sang and made gestures during the German national anthem, and can't see why people would be offended by it, are the same people who feel it's
banter to do the airplane arms when their team plays Man United. Again, it's poor taste, disrespectful and ultimately people died. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy humorous songs as much as the next person, and I find myself laughing at some of the things that get sung in the Smethwick that are genuinely funny. There is a line however, and taunting about people dying, someone's race or sexuality shouldn't have any place in football at all.
