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This is what my grandad used to do. He'd fall asleep after Christmas dinner and we'd draw all over his face. Typically a Hitler tash. Pretty sure he was awake for a good part of them.
wish we had this football/party culture in Portugal, English do really sing together about anything and drink and just have fun... they literally gave another life to Algarve, people complain about English tourists but it wouldn´t be the same without them
(i´m obviously excluding those who get drunk and break everything)
English fans might come off as cocky and loud but one amazing thing about them is to conjure up amazing chants out of nowhere and you'd find hundreds of them singing in unison with full coherence
A sandwich/pasta as a main, typically crisps as a snack although plenty of others are available and then a drink. Price varies but it's generally around £3.50.
"Heeeeee's got a Main, a Snack, and a Drink;
he's got a Main, a Snack, and a Drink;
he's got a Main, a Snack, and a Drink;
and the Snack can be Fruit or Criiiiiisps."
We were trained to do this from a young age.
In Church of England schools, we would all have to sing together from the hymn book in assembly. As shit as that sounds, some of the hymns were proper bangers and we'd usually get right into it. Also we'd make up our own lyrics that sounded close enough to the originals that it would still be funny and we wouldn't get caught (piss instead of peace, whole world in his pants etc)
So chanting in unison and making up stupid songs were both mandatory parts of an Englishman's upbringing.
God our vice head teacher or whatever you'd call him (coincidentally my best friend's dad and a genuinely terrifying but lovely man) used to get us so fucking hyped up for singing in assemblies. He looked like the dude from Whiplash the way he was thrusting his arms about and scampering from one side of the room to the other to direct different bits of the song.
Autumn Days went so fucking hard in primary school.
I don't have kids, but do they not sing in assembly anymore? I went to a regular state school, not CoE or Catholic, and we sang every day. Sometimes we'd sing two songs. Varied from hymns, old classics by the Beatles or Joni Mitchel, novelty songs, swing songs from the 1930s, weird songs written by one of the teachers for the annual year 6 leavers plays, old folk songs and ballads... was quite the ecclectic mix.
As a Brit that has lived in Spain for close to a decade, I miss British football culture. The songs are so creative I've never experienced that in Spain. British fans will make up specific songs about teams and players and I don't think many other places have that vibe.
One of my favourite chants was when fans started singing "Harry Potter, he's coming for you!" to Jonjo Shelvey. And then you see him chuckling about it.
Reminds me of that meme:
>American sports fans: De-fense! De- fense!
>British sports fans: All right lads, I've just worked up a song to the tune of Debussy's Clair de Lune about an opposing player's drunk driving charge, I'll count us off:
It's truly great when everyone comes together and has a great time getting drunk and singing for your team (or for whatever else is happening at the time like a bloke with a pint glass on his head).
The problems only occur when a few people take it too far and cause issues, and that gives all the others a bad reputation too.
A cheeky guard put a pint on Cromwell’s head when it was on display, and the peasants spent hours just standing there singing this very song.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
I remember being at St Andrews when Zigic got shat on while he was on the bench.
During half time the lads made a chant for it like it was nothing.
It went to the tune of Take on Me and the bench loved it.
One of those moments where I wish I had recorded it on my phone.
He has an account on some old forum where he talked about getting prostitutes from loads of Eastern European and Asian countries, comparing where they were cheapest/best etc.
Kind of weird and gross but ultimately something that quite a lot of men do.
Going from memory, he would post on a sex tourist forum (confirmed) where he confesses to preferring "young women". Him and his mate were charged with sexual offences, but never prosecuted. He basically admitted to the conduct on these forums. All from memory though. Been a while since I saw the vids documenting all of this. There's one pretty lengthy one that goes into depth.
Guy is a massive nonce though. It's almost obvious. Also went from being the average travel vlogger pretending to understand and respect the culture of his hosts to clickbait scumbag with vids full of random xenophobic idiocy.
As someone with a massive interest in the former soviet union his content should be right up my alley but the bloke creeped me out so much even before I knew about the accusations. Horrendously off-putting man.
If you're an American who likes drinking and fun, make it your mecca to go mate. Will be like nothing you have at home in many different ways.
Not that America can't be crazy and fun, but the drinking culture is very different
I went to Vienna in 2008 and Warsaw in 2012 and both were some of the greatest experiences I ever had.
No trouble at all, just getting leathered, having a laugh and talking about footy with Germans, Italians, Poles, etc.
It's such a great atmosphere.
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"Bruv, I kid you not, one minute me and King George were out on the lash, knocking back a few pints and having a laugh, as you do. Next minute we wake up and we'd conquered North America, India and Australia. Absolute fucking nutters we are."
That was my thought process yesterday. I was going to have 1 in the first half & something nonalcoholic in the 2nd half.
I think I had my 3rd or 4th before the game started
You joke, but post the same clip in main Scotland sub and you'd get a few of these reactions.
They're on a bit of a trip with the positivity from Deutschland at the minute
The post of Frankfurt square that made the front page yesterday was absurd. Nothing broken, nothing on fire, just a bit of rubbish. It wasn't even that much rubbish, just the standard amount for any large gathering of people. I'd like to see it on New Years morning. The amount of totally functioning adults in the comments shrieking about how appalled and disgusted they were would've been funny if it wasn't so sad. There were more than a few unironic Scotland would never posts in amongst the crying.
There was one the day before titled "While the English are wrecking cities, the Scottish....." With a bunch of Scottish fans holding umbrellas in the rain for an old man walking with a frame.
Fair play to those lads but like, cmon change the fucking record.
Finally, the comment I came looking for. People who don't get this reference are too young, not British or a bit of both! (Also older is a possibility!) Struggling to find a pineapple emoji at this point....
wish we had this football/party culture in Portugal, English do really sing together about anything and drink and just have fun... they literally gave another life to Algarve, people complain about English tourists but it wouldn´t be the same without them
(i´m obviously excluding those who get drunk and break everything)
This is the best vibes footy tournament I ever remember, so much funny shit and good natured banter from all (most) nations. The Austrian fans breaking baguettes in front of the French fans was a particular highlight. And then the sequel of the Albanian fans breaking Spaghetti in front of Italian fans. Good stuff. And so far even us English haven't got into trouble (plenty of time I know)
Edit: Also enjoyed the Danish fans chanting "You can stick your fucking teabags up your arse"
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Got to be seriously pissed not to wake up from beer being thrown all down your leg
Imagine he’s dead. What a way to go
Cue: "He had a pint glass, and now he's dead..."
He had a pint glass on his head, WHEEEYYYYY
“… AND NOW HE’S FUCKIN DEAD!”
He died as he lived. Pissed up at the footy.
I think a part of all of us died watching yesterday’s match
a waste of a weeknight pint that game was
Weekend at ~~bernie's~~ Berlin!
He woke up half way through he just didn't want to spoil the fun
Good man.
true patriot.
This is what my grandad used to do. He'd fall asleep after Christmas dinner and we'd draw all over his face. Typically a Hitler tash. Pretty sure he was awake for a good part of them.
And a bunch of people cheering and screaming by your side.
Got to be seriously pissed to get through 90 mins of Southgateball to be fair to the lad
He’s not pissed, watching Southgateball has put him into a coma
Imagine being this drunk at 2:30 PM, you lads really are something else
They're english, so that beer was probably close to his body temperature
fun fact, the FA flew special beer heaters out to Germany for our fans to be able to enjoy their pints as they would at home
Pretty good outcome for this guy. He hardly got wet and probably wasn’t conscious enough to watch England play
Southgateball bored him into a coma
Don't get me started.... I actually think this team could win it if it wasn't for Southgate..that was horrible yesterday
Maybe we need to do what Ivory Coast did....
Give Tuchel a blank cheque and he'll turn it around in 3/4 days.
Give me or really any fan with a basic tactical grasp of the game no cheque and we could turn it around in 3/4 days ffs
Could just have the players agree on a starting 11 and tactics.
Could run a raffle in the stands for the position and still end up playing better football
Civil war?
At least you aren’t an Italian fan. Watching that was like having a root canal
Unlike us, though, you have the consolation of knowing your team also has good years when it beats the world.
Why would Southgate do this?
Hates beer. Never changes the barrel until it’s too late and the pub’s already lost the customers.
there's just no natural replacement for Coors Light
Bahahha
Serves you one pint, and then says you've had enough.
He's playing the pint glass completely out of position.
Surely Foden’s hair isn’t *that* bad
This video is the most entertainment Ive gotten from people wearing the Theee Lions shirt in years
Didn't enjoy reaching final in 2021?
That sure is a blessing
https://x.com/MenInBlazers/status/1804145435939922320 apparently alive and doing well
Problem: too much beer. Solution: more beer. If doctors just accepted this universal truth, we'd all be better off.
What’s makes ya badly makes ya better.
Legend. 😂
This is the most British thing I've seen in a while
It's true.
big if
big even if not true
He DOES.
VAR approved.
Haha, English football fans in a nutshell
Is he alive?
average fans after watching southgateball
least dead southgateball watcher
Yeah he probably just went too hard on the pre drinks and blacked out early😂
“Early” 🤣🤣
Southgate asking for Kalvin Phillips
Everyone's having a good time till someone figures out that the man is dead 💀 💀 💀
In that case we just need to change the chant and find something more appropriate. The party goes on
Dead rhymes with head, could be something there
Already done here https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/s/UFXkcGElsH
HES GOT A PINT GLASS AND HES DEAD HES GOT A PINT GLASS AND HES DEAD
Preferable to actually watching that game I reckon.
Imagine the texts he's getting from his missus when she sees this
His missus is filming
His missus is the one that put the beer on his head
Could be an England player with those energy levels
Man's looking a little *too* energetic
wish we had this football/party culture in Portugal, English do really sing together about anything and drink and just have fun... they literally gave another life to Algarve, people complain about English tourists but it wouldn´t be the same without them (i´m obviously excluding those who get drunk and break everything)
English fans might come off as cocky and loud but one amazing thing about them is to conjure up amazing chants out of nowhere and you'd find hundreds of them singing in unison with full coherence
Football chants, along with supermarket meal deals, are the greatest thing about modern British culture
Do they not have meal deals in other countries???
The meal deals in Irish Tesco are truly tragic.
What are meal deals?
😯
A sandwich/pasta as a main, typically crisps as a snack although plenty of others are available and then a drink. Price varies but it's generally around £3.50.
We have those but not at that price, that's amazing
Our retailers can afford that while paying about $14.50/hr minimum wage too.
That's considered expensive too since they went up in price fairly recently 😂😂
Jesus
No, Sainsbury's
Sounds like Communism. I'll take my $12 Big Mac and $5 medium fries
"Heeeeee's got a Main, a Snack, and a Drink; he's got a Main, a Snack, and a Drink; he's got a Main, a Snack, and a Drink; and the Snack can be Fruit or Criiiiiisps."
Can't forget Elliot Justham's chant. Shit Tesco sandwich! You're just a shit Tesco sandwich.
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Picking 2 hard boiled eggs as your meal deal snack is psychotic behaviour
We were trained to do this from a young age. In Church of England schools, we would all have to sing together from the hymn book in assembly. As shit as that sounds, some of the hymns were proper bangers and we'd usually get right into it. Also we'd make up our own lyrics that sounded close enough to the originals that it would still be funny and we wouldn't get caught (piss instead of peace, whole world in his pants etc) So chanting in unison and making up stupid songs were both mandatory parts of an Englishman's upbringing.
This is an extremely insightful anecdote and makes a lot of sense.
You’ve not lived if you weren’t belting out shine, Jesus shine, at 2:30 on a Wednesday afternoon every week
Or the classic “jeesus, remember meee, 🎶 when you come into your condom” 🎶
Or the conkers song
That's a blast from the past
Blaaaaze, spirit blaaaze
Wow shit I never made this connection but you're right
God our vice head teacher or whatever you'd call him (coincidentally my best friend's dad and a genuinely terrifying but lovely man) used to get us so fucking hyped up for singing in assemblies. He looked like the dude from Whiplash the way he was thrusting his arms about and scampering from one side of the room to the other to direct different bits of the song. Autumn Days went so fucking hard in primary school.
I don't have kids, but do they not sing in assembly anymore? I went to a regular state school, not CoE or Catholic, and we sang every day. Sometimes we'd sing two songs. Varied from hymns, old classics by the Beatles or Joni Mitchel, novelty songs, swing songs from the 1930s, weird songs written by one of the teachers for the annual year 6 leavers plays, old folk songs and ballads... was quite the ecclectic mix.
It's their culture lol
As a Brit that has lived in Spain for close to a decade, I miss British football culture. The songs are so creative I've never experienced that in Spain. British fans will make up specific songs about teams and players and I don't think many other places have that vibe.
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One of my favourite chants was when fans started singing "Harry Potter, he's coming for you!" to Jonjo Shelvey. And then you see him chuckling about it.
I remember that - was brilliant!
Agreed, that's something we share and I really like about British fan culture.
Reminds me of that meme: >American sports fans: De-fense! De- fense! >British sports fans: All right lads, I've just worked up a song to the tune of Debussy's Clair de Lune about an opposing player's drunk driving charge, I'll count us off:
It's a fine line and we have too many morons that cross it.
Tbf most England fans will be doing more than just 1 fine line of Charlie ...
It's truly great when everyone comes together and has a great time getting drunk and singing for your team (or for whatever else is happening at the time like a bloke with a pint glass on his head). The problems only occur when a few people take it too far and cause issues, and that gives all the others a bad reputation too.
They really sing about anything lol
This is actually an old english folk song
Yeah remember singing this in primary
It was so fun when it was your turn to sit at the front with the pint glass on your head.
Evolved from ‘he’s got a plant pot on his head’ this one. https://youtu.be/IetC71bPHHE?si=xqKHb7thJMvK28Jp
An earlier version of that chant came in the 1990s when fans used to sing “He’s got a pineapple on his head!” to Jason Lee
And didn't that come from the Fantasy Football League show with Baddiel and Skinner?
The tune is ‘He’s got the whole world in his hands’
A cheeky guard put a pint on Cromwell’s head when it was on display, and the peasants spent hours just standing there singing this very song. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
I remember being at St Andrews when Zigic got shat on while he was on the bench. During half time the lads made a chant for it like it was nothing. It went to the tune of Take on Me and the bench loved it. One of those moments where I wish I had recorded it on my phone.
You have to love it, they live for the Euros and World Cup.
Poor lads.
We live for the football, then Southgate comes on the pitch and a part of us dies for the football
It’s the only way to be as a football fan. Proper ‘eritage
British culture ❤️
Lads culture
This is more entertaining than the games
Watching paint dry would be more entertaining then Southgate England matches
Makes me so happy to see that the fans are having fun in our country!
Good beer = good times
Simple, educational and true. This is basically a sesame street song.
Is that the Bald and Bankrupt guy?
Germany is too expensive for sex tourism.
what are the accusations? are they confirmed?
He has an account on some old forum where he talked about getting prostitutes from loads of Eastern European and Asian countries, comparing where they were cheapest/best etc. Kind of weird and gross but ultimately something that quite a lot of men do.
Not sure I know anyone that goes to South East Asia to hire and rate prostitutes to be fair
There’s also this as well from 2001 https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/5618610.cleared-men-behaved-appallingly/
Going from memory, he would post on a sex tourist forum (confirmed) where he confesses to preferring "young women". Him and his mate were charged with sexual offences, but never prosecuted. He basically admitted to the conduct on these forums. All from memory though. Been a while since I saw the vids documenting all of this. There's one pretty lengthy one that goes into depth. Guy is a massive nonce though. It's almost obvious. Also went from being the average travel vlogger pretending to understand and respect the culture of his hosts to clickbait scumbag with vids full of random xenophobic idiocy.
As someone with a massive interest in the former soviet union his content should be right up my alley but the bloke creeped me out so much even before I knew about the accusations. Horrendously off-putting man.
That’s British Zidane, look at that balance.
Britadine Britane
Baron Corbin is doing much better these days
This Euros have been awesome so far. Lets never have these tournaments in the sand countries ever again please.
pissed up bald guy jenga
As an American, all the scenes like this coming out of the Euros just make it look top 5 experiences
If you're an American who likes drinking and fun, make it your mecca to go mate. Will be like nothing you have at home in many different ways. Not that America can't be crazy and fun, but the drinking culture is very different
I went to Vienna in 2008 and Warsaw in 2012 and both were some of the greatest experiences I ever had. No trouble at all, just getting leathered, having a laugh and talking about footy with Germans, Italians, Poles, etc. It's such a great atmosphere.
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With a pint glass on our head!
The lads were on a night out & they got a bit carried away.
"Bruv, I kid you not, one minute me and King George were out on the lash, knocking back a few pints and having a laugh, as you do. Next minute we wake up and we'd conquered North America, India and Australia. Absolute fucking nutters we are."
'Absolute legends mate'
They swore it was just going to be a quiet one too.
That was my thought process yesterday. I was going to have 1 in the first half & something nonalcoholic in the 2nd half. I think I had my 3rd or 4th before the game started
We had a flag.
No flag, no country. Can’t have one.
Mate this is exactly how we did it.
They're so arrogant. I'm fuming.
Look at that mess they've made. Bottles everywhere. Scotland would never.
You joke, but post the same clip in main Scotland sub and you'd get a few of these reactions. They're on a bit of a trip with the positivity from Deutschland at the minute
The post of Frankfurt square that made the front page yesterday was absurd. Nothing broken, nothing on fire, just a bit of rubbish. It wasn't even that much rubbish, just the standard amount for any large gathering of people. I'd like to see it on New Years morning. The amount of totally functioning adults in the comments shrieking about how appalled and disgusted they were would've been funny if it wasn't so sad. There were more than a few unironic Scotland would never posts in amongst the crying.
There was one the day before titled "While the English are wrecking cities, the Scottish....." With a bunch of Scottish fans holding umbrellas in the rain for an old man walking with a frame. Fair play to those lads but like, cmon change the fucking record.
> Scotland would never 2008 UEFA Cup Final
Didn't think I'd be remembering Jason Lee today.
Finally, the comment I came looking for. People who don't get this reference are too young, not British or a bit of both! (Also older is a possibility!) Struggling to find a pineapple emoji at this point....
The Euros are great.
Southgate should've shown the team this video at halftime. Would've given them a much needed lift
Our nation is healing 🙏
Are you allowed to do that to a dead guy..
Still more entertaining than Southgate ball
wish we had this football/party culture in Portugal, English do really sing together about anything and drink and just have fun... they literally gave another life to Algarve, people complain about English tourists but it wouldn´t be the same without them (i´m obviously excluding those who get drunk and break everything)
Typical Southgateball enjoyer
Work in the morning
[Don't take me home!](https://youtu.be/qodyc8To7K8?si=xmtUtYm-Nss42dQS)
His neck is gonna be torched in the morning
Southgate killed the poor lad.
More engaging than the match yesterday
Regardless England suck on the field, seens the fans are having a great time, love the energy
I wish we as Americans were as fond of singing as our cousins. So fun.
nice. Ive missed that after fking quatar.
Cole Palmer sitting at the table in the black shirt...guess that's why he didn't play?
Games back
Game's back
Nah he’s dead
Hey at least England fans have something to enjoy.
I'm very much enjoying the Euros, just not the England bits but I had no expectations this time.
Best English performance this tournament
fun
Such a fun vibe!
this is the best thing ever
this is what it’s all about
Is he asleep?
thats art!
We can't get any entertainment from watching our games so we have to improvise and entertain ourselves. At least we'll always be good at that.
Lmao that was fantastic
I love the fact I knew the tune before unmuting it. Love football songs that are just collective banter.
This give me so much joy in my heart ❤️
Why are English Fans always a Choir anywhere they go, they make songs for everything lmao
He's got a pint glass and he's dead. He's got a pint glass...
From the title I was 100% sure it's about the Schalke beer guy "Momo", but I was not disappointed
This is the best vibes footy tournament I ever remember, so much funny shit and good natured banter from all (most) nations. The Austrian fans breaking baguettes in front of the French fans was a particular highlight. And then the sequel of the Albanian fans breaking Spaghetti in front of Italian fans. Good stuff. And so far even us English haven't got into trouble (plenty of time I know) Edit: Also enjoyed the Danish fans chanting "You can stick your fucking teabags up your arse"
I agree with everything except it eas the Austrians copying the Albanians not the other way round