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[brionon]

Once again we see those friendly Scots on the TV, showing their hatred of England by Lauding Maradonna for scoring a goal against England with his hand. I always cheer for Scotland when they play, and shall continue to do so. Will you ?

[Gromit]

Yes.

Football unfortunately attracts a lot of racists.

This is Scottish fans displaying their racism.

[libertie]

To be fair it's not so much the England team that annoys us Scots it's your bluddy totally biased commentators!!

[libertie]

Posted to quickly there! Both my sons were born in England and generally speaking the only time we don't support England is when they're playing Scotland....at anything!

[jno]

Maradona's own response, I noticed, was to suggest there was something not quite kosher about an England goal in 1966, and to wonder why the English seem so very much more forgiving of it than they are of his. I wasn't able to think of a convincing response to this, but no doubt some Englishman can help me with this one?

[Quinlad]

It doesn't really bother me. You get a lot of bitter rivalries that are very lop-sided.

The Scots hate us. We don't mind them. But it's only like England v Germany. While we look at them as bitter rivals, they actually think of us quite benignly, if at all. They're more concerned with the Dutch.

[Quinlad]

I think the difference, jno, is that, although both were bad refereeing decisions, one was the result of blatant cheating and one was just slightly off-target.

[Gromit]

jno

That wasn't English cheating, that was a foreign linesman being typically incompetent.

[jno]

oh I wasn't suggesting it could possibly be cheating, far from it, the very idea etc etc. I just wondered why England supporters showed so much more understanding of human error than they do in Maradona's case.

[Sgt.Rock]

Don't forget England's their racist "fans".

[Quinlad]

A lot of supporters forget that England had spent the first half trying to kick Maradona off the park. It was brutal. So it's not as if we were perfect gents.

The second goal deserved to win the game on its own anyway.

[brionon]

I think it was a Goal. I think Maradonna cheated-BUT I still Support Scotland when they play and I wouldn't dream of Hating the Scots or any other Nation.

[ludwig]

Who cares. When your own team's got no chance of being in the competition, I suppose you've got to have something to support, and if you're sad enough for that to be 'anyone who's playing England', fair enough.

Personally I don't mind the Maradona goal. All football players cheat after all; shirt pulling, diving, deliberate handball, they all do it. They only whinge about it when it's the other side getting away with it and they're on the receiving end.

[Octavius]

I think it is just demonstrable of many people�s inability to let go of the past, in the vain hope that repeating it endlessly might ruffle some feathers and prompt a reaction. If the Scots get some nationalistic unity out of it, then so be it, but why should we give it credence or attention? Argentina beat England, and England won the world cup, the rest is trivial semantics.

It�s just child�s play, some would say clutching at straws - trying to find that one point of irrelevance to harbour some iota of detestation.

[anotheoldgit]

Racism between Scotland & England?

Not counted, it's against the rules, seeing that both true Scotsmen and Englishmen have pale skins.

Now England v Nigeria is an entirely different ball game.