Argentina players Falklands protest

Will no one think of the penguins!

 

I think it is quite disrespectful, it automatically assumes that every player supports the claim. Whereas in truth probably half the players don't even know or understand the politics/history behind it. Hence the banner depicts social conditioning. Football should not be used for political nationalism. Much the same way as this group were reported purely as example;

12 April 2014 – Ukrainian Premier League: Karpaty Lviv v Dynamo Kyiv

A group of Karpaty Lviv supporters displayed a far-right banner.

http://www.farenet.org/news/incidents-reported-fare-april-2014/

 

I agree - same as players in this country being rail roaded into having a minute's silence for a prostitute who was killed in a car crash a few years back.

 

You going to take that Mindy?

 

Would you like a wee wager on that?(I know, quite sad that we will both need to be on here in 10 years time to collect the bet)

 

^^^

This guy, whoever he is, has been on the forum for five minutes and already he's making bets for a decade into the future.

 

Cringey

 

I'm sure the British government are quaking in their boots in fear over this mob

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-06-05/for-argentina-debt-disaster-looks-avoidable

 

Totally agree with you.

 

I like your style,that's a cracker!

 

What about independence? I don't think they should be British but don't really think they should be Argentinian. Ain't that still colonialism?

Independence for everyone I say.

 

I’m not sure the 82 invasion constituted “legal” sovereignty!

The only time they were there before was when a military force from the Buenos Aires Colonial (note the word “colonial” – a word used continually by Angophobic South Americans these days) Administration kicked out British settlers in the early 1800s. A few years later we kicked them back out again and they’ve been crying since.

Yrpsin might have a point if the Falklands weren’t unoccupied when Britain first claimed them centuries before Argentina existed as a country and Spain were only considering starting the African-Euro-American slave trade, carrying out genocide on various islands and working millions to death in South American silver mines.

There was no native population and certainly no “Argentinean” one.

And if we’re talking about mere proximity (700 odd miles in Argentina’s case), then all manner of islands should be “returned” to the nearest land mass. For a start, the Canary Islands should be Moroccan, not Spanish, and the Canaries (as is common with victims of Spanish colonialism) DID have a native population. Next time you go there try and count how many you find. Ditto the Domenican Republic etc. Hint: you won’t get past the number one.

But the Argentineans will still howl about “colonialism” despite being the result of the actions of the most brutal European “colonial” power. With the possible exception of the Belgians in the Congo, the Germans, only a nation state since the 1870s, who still managed a couple of attempted genocides in Africa, the Russians, the only bunch who never gave their brutally gained “possessions” back who were subsequently subjected to decades of Soviet lunacy…

 

Tell the Argies to give Islas Martin Garcia back to Uruguay, a land mass in Uruguay controlled by Argentina.

Or send a Nuke right into Argentina courtesy of the Queen.

#GBTP