mmarshall

Perhaps the Spanish have never gotten over the fact that the British Royal Navy wiped out their big fleet over 500 years ago.......in 1588. Some people just carry grudges.

SecPole14

I'm sure that's it. In reality, I think the British are angry that the Spanish enjoy better weather and better-looking women. That's material for a good grudge, don't you think?

jimmyjazz

Didn't a hurricane help a little?

mmarshall

Well, there are plenty of good-looking women in Britain. Don't forget, that is the country that gave us Princess Diana and Britney Spears..........it's just too bad Britney doesn't have a brain to go with her looks.

Big Andy

Nah - there's no tension between the British and the Spanish - it's like our Florida, millions go on holiday there every year and it's the most popular place for Brits to live abroad. Every now and then the Spanish get upset about Gibraltar which they seem to think is theirs and they close the border there, but other than that I've never had a wrong word said to me there. Then again I'm not black and I haven't been to a football match there.

RXGS

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hmm seems like what i get, since i play hockey, and i can tell you, not many "pacific islanders" play hockey lol, i get everything from HEY GHANDI to he n$g$$$ or hey ch##k, if you can tell what those words are, and im not any of those, im frigging fillipino

Big Andy

Hang on a minute! You can't claim Britney is ours - yes one of her grandmothers was English but I never heard anybody saying she was British when she doing well. Now she's gone a bit fruit loop all of a sudden you're giving her back! We have a no returns policy

BTW - We'll claim Halle Berry as her mother was from Liverpool.

whoster

hahahaha no return policy...




i wonder how hamilton feels about that. he seemed really chill and cool about everything when he was on Top Gear--even stuck Clarkson one after he asked "so everyone wants a useless teammate then??"

Hamilton: you want to be on next year?

ES350Bob

OMG that was funny as if you have to tell the fools what you are to give the morons a clue.

Just ignore the creeps and play like hell

ES350Bob

That was bad, very ugly, perhaps they share the same Spaniard ancestors as those giving Hamilton a hard time.

RXGS

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they have yet to guess what i am without them knowing lol o well

GS wanted

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Wasn't Britney Spears born in the south (Mississippi or Louisiana) somewhere?

Didn't know her mother was a scouser. In any case we'll gladly claim that beauty as All-American.

Anyway, back to the racism in sport issue:
Stand Up, Speak Up campaign
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sbetvlu9Qg

ESPN segment on racism in Euro soccer. Some segments are the same as shown on HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumble
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwpO-...eature=related

LexLaw

Thanx for bringing us back to what the thread was sadly originally about. Great piece done by Real Sports. I was apalled yet not amazed when I watched it a while back. Good stuff Sad that this still exists in 2008 and even more sad that there is no real sign of it ever going away.

BobaDrift

Hey its all good. I'm Pacific Islander as well. Since you're filipino you have stick fighting in your blood. Now put it to use and swing that hockey stick effectively.

DASHOCKER

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The Jackie Robinson, Venus & Serena, of Soccer.. Nascar is next.