So anyway, I can't have the Sunday Times in the house. It's full of references to French people as 'frogs'. Which apart from being racist is unbelievably crass, peurile, and dimwitted little Englander, . So, while the English papers that have fostered anti-immigrant sentiments in Ireland (does anyone remember 'Rapist refugee rampage' from The Star?) congratulate themselves on the lack of racism in English football compared to the continent (true, monkey chants aren't common any more in Britain - though it isn't that long ago it was, and I wouldn't have spoken in an Irish accent, or seen a black person, on the terraces in 1990) they are rotten to the core with disgusting triumphalist anglo racism.
So, I got a taxi on Saturday night and I was saying to the taxi driver that I was sorry Southampton got a very late equaliser with Palace as I like Iain Dowie, their manager, as he really was a rocket scientist as well as captain of Northern Ireland and the taxi driver goes 'yeah, but he's a total hun you know'. And I was thinking to myself 'I live in a country where racist terms can be used in public' it's just different racisms in different countries.
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