Special message for England fans appears on Welsh beach
It was the morning after the night before and as England woke up with sore heads and nursing broken dreams, the rest of the Celtic nations were not so crestfallen.
In fact, the denizens of Wales, Scotland and Ireland seemed rather chipper for some reason.
It might have had something to do with the fact that despite England fans and the English media reassuring us that ‘It was coming home’, it yet again got lost, and the European Championship instead headed to Spain after a thoroughly deserved 2-1 victory for the Spanish in the final in Berlin last night.
The banter aimed at England was as you would imagine a sight to behold. Seismic in its outpouring, it probably registered on the richter scale.
Nowhere was this more beautifully illustrated than on the beach at Barry Island this morning.
A post on X by Wales and Cardiff City fan Miguel (aka X user @mjdo27) showed the beach with the words ‘IT’S NOT COMING HOME’ written into it.
Right who is it that deserves a pint in Barry? pic.twitter.com/mkawsGooKl
— Miguel 🇪🇸 (@mjdo27) July 15, 2024
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If England and the English media showed a bit of humility for once it would go a long way. But the over the top, in your face, wall to wall, coverage is stifling to the point I delight in their failure rather than wishing them well being the sole side in the tournament from Britain left seeing Scotland was sadly eliminated and Wales & NI failed to qualify, Wales by a whisker and should have been in Germany. Another bugbear of mine and no doubt others is how England control the media. They can transmit into our homes whatever they… Read more »
We wuz robbed!!
Yes, they request, no demand, our support and yet practically ignore the other countries of the UK when they do well. If they’d won yesterday, we’d have been blitzed with England this and England that for weeks, if not months. Thank goodness they lost, a bit of peace.
Yeah sky sports are the worst! They won’t call it by its actual name “sky sports England” because there would inevitably be calls for a Scottish and British version. Instead they like to keep it as Sky sports to make it seem we are all being treated equal but 99.8% of all sporting coverage is English. They even love to hire English born presenters with Names that originate in Wales and Scotland just to rub it in.
Well said Y Cymro, agreed!
How many other countries in the world 🌎 have ‘blanket’ coverage of their sporting bitter rivals? Nauseating
I often wonder when Royalty, politicians or the media say they’ve made the ‘whole country’ proud or the ‘whole country’ is behind you. What do they actually mean by ‘whole country’? They should simply replace this nuanced phrase with the word England unless they would like to confirm that this is what they mean.
In many respects Wales is better off than most other such people.
The Bretons, Frisians, Walloons and the Basques don’t even get to play for their nations at all. If the price to be paid for having our own international football team despite not being independent is to have to put up with the media coverage of the overarching nation state then so be it. Turn the TV off, or on mute, and stop buying newspapers if you don’t like it.
We are getting to the nub of the problem with this I think: the lopsided, unequal and imbalanced composition of the UK. 4 designated ‘constituent countries’ (Eng, Scot, Wales , Ni) , to make up the UK. In terms of population, the largest of the 4 (Eng) is over 10 times the size the next largest (Scot); over 15 times the size of Wales; and to complicate matters further, the smallest country is over the water (NI), and is physically part of a different land mass (Ireland). This is the situation we are in…4 different constituent countries, of markedly different… Read more »
Brilliant…..
We need to be careful insulting the hand that feeds us in football. Our very few pro football teams only exist because they’re allowed into the English lower leagues and how many of our international players come from England or through their development systems.
They’re not threatened by our football because we haven’t beaten them for over 40 years, whereas a suspicious number of England rugby individuals were behind last years ‘independent’ report attacking Welsh rugby.