Quickfire World Cup 2010 Poll #2: MOST HATED NATION

England

― If it's not hurting, you're not lurking (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, June 9, 2010 8:55 PM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

oops, that's a little quicker fire than I intended - have modreq'd a short extension to the hatin'

― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, June 9, 2010 9:06 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

nah u gotta vote while it's good and hot

― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Wednesday, June 9, 2010 9:12 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

portugal, purely cos of c-twat

― I see what this is (Local Garda), Wednesday, June 9, 2010 9:14 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

forgot france actually, shame on me.

― I see what this is (Local Garda), Wednesday, June 9, 2010 9:14 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

italy

― iatee, Wednesday, June 9, 2010 9:15 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

at least a dozen worthy contenders here, to be fair

― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, June 9, 2010 9:15 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

england. i wouldn't hate england if i didn't live in the united kingdom. but having the world cup mania -commentators and all- of another country thrust upon you is sure to make the piss-boil. i applaud england's elimination. i sometimes jump up and down and cheer and get a bit misty-eyed. i would care very little either way if it wasn't for the media and would probably vote Germany.

― Lil' Lj & The World (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, June 9, 2010 9:17 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol piss-boil? let us make the piss-boil!

― Lil' Lj & The World (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, June 9, 2010 9:17 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Still England

Switzerland, beyond tedious waste of space in every tournament.

but Steve Shasta plays for them!

― If it's not hurting, you're not lurking (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 21:27 (22 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

italy

― iatee, Wednesday, June 9, 2010 9:15 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

if it were italy vs. north korea in the finals (and let's face it, it prolly will be) - I'd be rooting north korea

can't vote for italy because they're my super-gloryhunter option (my gran is half-italian, lol).

but yeah they have bored me many times. Although they were a decent side in 94 iirc.

Italy vs Koreans tends to be good for laughs

Watching Gattuso kick people is a highlight of any tournament for me

there's no-one i want to see crash and burn more than France this time but if they miraculously start playing well i might relent. Portugal can fuck off too obv.

england

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pfft my france comments got et?

about time those honduran pricks got whats coming imo

(real answer - portugal)

england

please please please can they lose asap

also the only footballers i'm familiar with are english, and each and every one of them seems to be a total moron

(nb i hate football even more than i hate the english football team specifically)

fucking italy, easy

I used to support England, then I lived there.

Greece btw, for turning an unlikely series of banana skins and giant-killings into the most boring, joyless thing ever

England >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> France >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Portugal > anyone else.

Dislike South Korea for being fast-tracked into the semi finals in 2002 by FIFA, but I suppose that's not really their fault.

I'm not English, so Germany have never bothered me. Italy have never bothered me either.

I think Honduras might be my second team at the World Cup, purely for Palacios.

Same reason I'm boosting Serbia

I want Denmark to win because of those hideous Carlsberg adverts that are running at the moment

Denmark would be second to Switzerland in hated nations for me, who exactly is excited at the prospect of watching them this time round?

They have one thing going for them, they're not Norway

and lolBendtner. If he's fit.

I'm English and I live in England so I'm voting for England.

Self-hating in being typically English non-shocker.

Can't see the point of USA as a 'soccer' nation.

why not?

going on a basis of 'who would i want to punch in the face first = domenech' i voted france.

what was the first quickfire poll?

gonna join Matt DC in the anti-Swiss camp I think

#1 was the same poll but I messed up the closing date so it was only about half-an-hour long. Need more hating time than that.

I'd do a #3 poll but I ran out of ideas.

Your Second Team?

fav wtf manager

It shows how awful England must be if so many English people here are voting for them

DAKR HOSRES?

when England wins this by ten votes I will sigh

http://images.newstatesman.com/blogs/daily-mail.jpg

wait I thought South Africa WAS Bongo Bongoland

I smell the blood of an Englishman

Winners' mentality by the English imo - get one trophy in the bag early doors

Mike Phelps more like Mark Lawrenson

The Revd Michael Engelbert Terre'blanche 'Mike' Phelps MA (Oxon) is the UK emissary of the Westboro Baptist Church [citation needed]

lol that dMail reader

LOL @ loveable racists who believe they have to watch every game, whether they want to or not

not printed

"plz show more swimming"

Dmail fellow might be quite at home in the US where the world cup = US v England.

Anyway: Italy!! Cheating fancyboys.

oh it's france easily. domenech + rape + "let's harass the only player worth watching (ie gourcuff)"

Cheating fancyboys.

France surely?

"Dmail fellow might be quite at home in the US where the world cup = US v England."

Man, that's not the vibe I am getting from the coverage at all.

England are like my brother. Have traditionally frustrated and annoyed the crap out of me but will always defend them.

^^

That letter is from Private Eye, surely?

is the question 'most hated by me' or "nation whom i think the most people in the world hate" or "nation whom i think a typical person in the world would hate the most of"?

'most hated by ken c'

the answer is 'england' because 'lol'

Can't see the point of USA as a 'soccer' nation.

lol ridic

tossup between legit hate for german cheats in '02 & colonial hate for england (nothing personal guys)

'Bongo Bongoland' is an Alan Clarkism iirc

It shows how awful England must be if so many English people here are voting for them

― Wenlock & Mandelson (Tom D.), Thursday, 10 June 2010 14:03 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Eh I think it just means that we know far too much about precisely how d-baggy each individual squad member is, whereas w/ most of the others we just have the odd column inch in Said & Done or whatever to grab on to

^the first line of that is mine not Tom D's, for the record

hum.. england or france..

xp pretty much. i'm guessing no-one voted for England based entirely on how they play (even if that is sometimes not good).

england would be based entirely on John Terry being in the team.

on and Steven Gerrard, and Wayne Rooney

it's always 6 of one reasonably likeable lad and almost half a dozen of the other imo

oh fuck and Ashley Gole!!!! Fuck what a team of horrible people.

All sorts of reasons. Media coverage. Invariably a boring team to watch too.

Lampard seems almost nice, in comparison (but ugh tory)

Fans too fairly horrid

arshavin excepted

Self-hating in being typically English non-shocker.

Oh no, I don't hate myself. At least, not most of the time. I don't even hate "England". It's the odious bunch of individuals in the English squad I dislike (particularly the Chelsea contingent). What a shower.

Of course, I'll get caught up with it like everyone else and if there's a semifinal vs Brazil in the offing in the first week of July, I'm sure I'll be thinking "well, if they've got this far..."

I would love the USA to win the whole ruddy thing.

ha, xxxp

xpost

but then again, England didn't cheat their way into the world cup

does seem like there's never been a more hated bunch of players in the team

Bleedin' Chelsea innit

I would love the USA to win the whole ruddy thing

yeah gotta root for the little guy

USA - World's Champions at Soccerball

Sorry I meant the hatred for the england team by people who are born and live here.

But are Italian or Spanish footballers that much better, personality wise?

USA are not the little guy...

USA v. North Korea final

... final conflict, that is

who is the spanish/italian john terry?

happy for anyone to win the World Cup except Italy (altho Lippi doing it again would be phenomenal), France, Portugal, Germany, Brazil, Argentina and...USA (nothing personal of course). pretty sure i say the same thing every four years tho.

Sorry I meant the hatred for the england team by people who are born and live here.

ain't nothing self-hating about my hatred of a) football generally b) those cunts in the england football team specifically c) those fucking england flags sprouting everywhere

Probably all of them (xp)

who is the spanish/italian john terry?

― show me your buccina (ken c), Thursday, 10 June 2010 17:07 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Cassano? I guess he makes up for it by doing it in a lolcassano way.

I guess Balotelli has potential. Dunno about cunty Spanish, although if Xavi doesn't shut up about how Cesc's barca dna, I may start to want to break his legs anytime soon.

USA are not the little guy...

dat's da joke

half of Spain hates Spain iirc. ditto France. i'm not sure this is a thing in most other Eurolands tho.

plus in a notinthesquad way xxxp

Domenech ruining it by not taking half the peados but still... its Domenech w/ Ribery and Govou and Handball fella and Gallas etc.

Oh yeah. I always die a little when I remember Cassano and Balotelli weren't picked to go.

those two plus totti would have brought some much needed crazy to a very boring squad

ok you've helped me convince myself. voted england.

Voted Italy just because. Very surprised to see that there isn't a single mention of Germany, arent they the traditional bad guy everyone loves to hate?

Germany are my second team in the absence of Turkey

REAL TALK

^ LOL Greek Cypriot heritage

Now I'm trying to think of who's the most hateable on the USA squad... no adulterers or random beaters there afaik, although Rico Clark did kick someone in the head while they were down once.

nah Jibe, that kinda switched to arabs after 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade' iirc.

^ LOL Greek Cypriot heritage

― Wenlock & Mandelson (Tom D.), Thursday, 10 June 2010 17:26 (2 minutes ago)

yeah and

... come on ye Tu-urks!

just realized by all that is good and USAUSAUSA I should vote Mexico, but I actually like watching them as long as they're not playing against us

tim howard is just about as bad as rooney when it comes to saying fuck you to refs. xxxpost

:D

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lol

oy oy you fackin facks stop invading other countries innit

who hates uruguay?

^ wasn't me but I'm thinking maybe its their political leadership.

the legacy of kicking the shit out of pele et al.

some sad results

Poll needs more Italy hate imo

otm

What's behind Anyone But England?.

'Fervent England supporter Mark Perryman, author of Ingerland: Travels With A Football Nation and a proponent of a tolerant, progressive English patriotism... "The driving force behind English nationalism isn't the English - it's the Scots. They have their own anthem, their own banknotes and now their own parliament. We don't have any of that." '

LOL geezer has never seen an English banknote

England? Really? I thought Italy would have run away with this one.

From the BBC link above:

In 1998 Scotland opened the tournament with a game against Brazil; roll forward a few days to England's first game (Algeria I think), cue Des Lynam opening the coverage, "The tournament started four days ago, but this is where it really begins."

I think I remember this!

how long during todays game did it take for 1966 to be mentioned?

In today's game between South Africa and Mexico?

yes, did it get a mention at all? usually it does.

t.s. england v ingerlund. poll results here are yawnsome.

^

Englande

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.horrorsquad.com/media/2009/10/robert-englund.jpg

I wish I'd voted for Greece and their turgid antifootball now.

don't get the Italy hate really

I understand the greek football hate totally though

didn't vote for Uruguay but they have a rep as the most thuggish team in the Western Hemisphere. From the small sample size of people I know, they are not generally well regarded in the us/mex/arg/brazil at least

Switzerland are routinely pish an' all, how do they qualify for this shit, do they just sneak past once everyone has fallen asleep?

Switzerland and Greece came through the same group (competition: Israel and Latvia) iirc

I never forgave Uruguay in 1986 for being thugs. Ernie Walker called that one right.

No way: could argue for Greece back in '04 they could do things like defend, find a goal and just blockade their way to a championship.

If only England could do this, but no, its always someone losing their nerve bah.

xxp = well Uruguay and Argentina (and Brazil, often enough) are cut from the same cloth. South American football isn't just 'the beautiful game' and all that baloney. xxp

fuck england 4eva, even disregarding volkisch shit extrinsic to the xi itself

greece and its tradition of playing shit football = completely understandable, small nation/no good players/2004 success

england " = none of those things rly

switzerland are shit (except for super behrami)

they had a freakishly easy qualification iirc

cameroon are boring and kinda shit, even tho they have probably my fav player at these finals

Switzerland lost to Luxembourg at home, but here they are

I wish we could get the draws that Switzerland get instead of this France/Italy/Holland shit that UEFA keep landing on us.

Swiss generally better than Scotland tho (they got that draw by virtue of being top seed having qualified for Euro 04 and WC 06)

Freakish is dead right - it was something like worst team in pot 1 (Greece), worst in pot 2 (Israel), Switzerland from pot 3, worst team from pot 4 (Latvia) and Luxembourg (who Switzerland promptly lost to). Basically, no tournament is going to be enhanced by the presence of either of those boring bastards.

Judging by yesterday Greece can't even do negative football properly any more.

"don't get the Italy hate really"

Really? I hate the way they dive, and flop around as though someone shot them after even the slightest contact. The way they tend to score a single goal and then completely stop attacking. A team full of men wearing hairbands. Totti. Every Italian football fan ever. There's plenty to hate.

but they always bring the lols

there is so much to love about the Italian team, goddamn

how is Totti in that list?