English football fans in Europe during the 1980s and ‘90s were not ambassadors either for the British game or Britain itself. Increasingly cheap flights across Europe meant that vast numbers of fat, pasty, sweaty, bald or balding men were able to enjoy spoiling the afternoons of those wishing to use cafés and bars in Portugal, or France, or Malta.
Whenever England or a top English side played in Europe, a town square somewhere would soon fill with beer bellies on shirtless, gross, and grubby torsos.
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As an American mongrel who’s about 49% English, I feel a particular – and possibly romanticized – affinity for Olde England, but even though I lived somewhat nearby, in Europe, for four years, I’ve never really wanted to visit. The prospect is too tinged with sadness and loss, so for the time being I’ll have to enjoy the England of old films and my imagination… but I appreciate your dispatches.
Negrolatry is rampant here as well. I insulate myself from it as best I can, by only watching old movies, reading old books, and listening to old music, but I worry for my children. It’s a sad state of affairs, really, clinging to a white home that once was, but is now just so much make-believe.
“White British” & “white British” are contained in article, however, combining these 2 words together is redundant because British people are European aka White. Also, it implicitly suggests that non-Europeans can be British, & they cannot.
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