wakes123
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Perhaps being close to Remembrance day?Silly question, but why is it being sung at all?
It's hardly topical or relevant to Sheffield. :unsure:
Perhaps being close to Remembrance day?Silly question, but why is it being sung at all?
It's hardly topical or relevant to Sheffield. :unsure:
Perhaps being close to Remembrance day?
Silly, pathetic, annoying song....Yes.............Racist....No.
The RAF shot down German bombers (that's right bombers not just random German planes which you make it sound like, i wonder if people stopped and worried about if they were being racist when shooting down German bombers to protect our country) during the Second World war, fact. How is singing about that racist?If you don't think the 10 german bombers chant is racist then you need educating. 10 green bottles isn't racist, songs about shooting down german planes is. This isn't rocket science.
That said, the atmosphere was fine for the rest of the day.
If you don't think the 10 german bombers chant is racist then you need educating. 10 green bottles isn't racist, songs about shooting down german planes is. This isn't rocket science.
That said, the atmosphere was fine for the rest of the day.
Why does it bother you so much that these 'young muppets' and 'hard men' (no idea how singing this means you're trying to be 'hard') are trying to remember those who fought in the Second World War? The way in which they do so doesn't really matter as long as it isn't completely offensive. Would you rather the brave men and their heroics of 70 years ago were left forgotten?Racist or not , the thing for me about the idiots who sing this ( and I have witnessed it at Wembley ) is that they some how feel they are aligning themselves with the brave young men who actually fought in the war and risked their lives day after day in these bombers that were very vulnerable to enemy attack.
When I was a youngster , my uncle told me the reality of the missions they flew and how he was scared every time he flew in one.
He , like many , did it so that we could retain our liberty and he was rightly proud of that , but he never glorified what he did.
The group of 'young muppets' and 'wannabe hard men' who attach themselves to our club , are sad imitations of those that risked and lost their lives.
I know the ones who have my gratitude.
Why does it bother you so much that these 'young muppets' and 'hard men' (no idea how singing this means you're trying to be 'hard') are trying to remember those who fought in the Second World War? The way in which they do so doesn't really matter as long as it isn't completely offensive. Would you rather the brave men and their heroics of 70 years ago were left forgotten?
Singing about flattening cities with innocent civilians would be different to singing songs about shooting down Nazi bombers attacking our country and threatening the lives of our people though wouldn't it.So, if German supporters sang about flattening London , Coventry, Chatham, etc , no one would be offended ?
Or may be if, the Japanese fans sang about the Burma railway at todays u19 intl that would also be ok ?
There are always other peoples perspectives to consider
You say that as though you know for a fact what the fallen would want, which you don't.I am sure that our brave forefathers would preferred not to be remembered in that way, hardly respectful to the fallen is it
So, if German supporters sang about flattening London , Coventry, Chatham, etc , no one would be offended ?
Or may be if, the Japanese fans sang about the Burma railway at todays u19 intl that would also be ok ?
There are always other peoples perspectives to consider
The German bombers is an old English chant and has been sung for years by English fans around the country - more so during international games
if you're offended by such a chant as the RAF shooting down German bombers (check your ww2 text book from year 8 history), then you must go through life offended by the smallest of things.
i sometimes wonder why I bother posting on here, it's embarrassing
Remember Bannockburn I hear the Scots cry. Remember Culloden I say.How the scots ever get away with 'Flower of Scotland' is beyond me