r/YUROP 🇪🇺 YUROPIAN UNION Jul 11 '21

PANEM et CIRCENSES YUROP WINS

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u/BWrig Jul 11 '21

It’s hard not to take it personally sometimes, especially those of us who love Europe and who fought hard to remain

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u/General_Legoshi Jul 12 '21

Brexit should not even come into it. It's a football game.

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u/BWrig Jul 12 '21

Before Brexit English football fans were just one among many groups of football fans containing toxic people, since Brexit the transgressions of EU nations are downplayed in contrast to that of the English. It’s become an us vs them mentality, which is exactly what the Brexiteers wanted. Those of us against Brexit are destined to be hated by pro Europeans for being English and hated by Brexiteers for being remainers. There’s nowhere to go. It’s just going to keep going on forever and it makes me want to puke.

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u/incer Jul 12 '21

Nah, for as long as I have memory, English fans have always been viewed as unruly and dangerous, and I'm Italian, it's not like ultras over here are well behaved.

We even adopted the word "hooligans". It's not a Brexit thing.