Change your perception, they are ordinary people

One of the biggest questions on every sports fans lips is that are the sports people we see on the field the same off the field? Is Paul Gascoigne really a mad bastard? Has Tiger got the same kak chip-on-his shoulder attitude at home then her does on the course?

Obviously they have to have been normal people at some point, but somewhere along the way some sports personalities just loose their normality and change.

I was privileged enough to go to school with Bradley Habana, Brian Habanna’s older brother, he was a few years ahead of me, but a real nice guy who was in the first rugby team when I was a young overweight under 14 player. He took the time to sit with me at times and explain the finer points of the game, and coach me as to what its like playing in the first team.

Ill never forget that, he didn’t have to waste his time with a youngster like me but he did. Now a few years on, he has a top job at ABSA and has a brother who is a Springbok. And how he has changed. I didn’t expect him to recognise me when he saw me on the weekend, In fact I never even spoke to him, but I saw that he has picked up the arrogance that only fame and fortune can give. And that’s a pity.

Bradley’s brother, Brian Habanna, is the same age as me. We never played rugby against each other at school because he went to KES who play in a higher league then my school did. But we did play against each other at Varsity level for our respective fraternity houses, and we developed a loose friendship. I always joke that one day I was asking Brian when he was going to get his break and play for the Lions in the Super 12 and a year later he was a Springbok.

Rumours were rife in the Bok camp that Brian had changed when he became a Bok. He wasn’t the carefree cool guy he was before; he had developed an attitude and a tendency to rebel to authority.

But as with all things, the few affect the public’s view on the many. And we get the feeling that all sports people don’t really have time for the plebs.

My friend Candice came up to Gauteng to visit her mom for the weekend and was able to organise some free tickets to the Bulls vs Waikato Chiefs game on the weekend. She got this through her friendship with Chiefs fly half Steven Donald. After the game she got an sms that me and her should go on the jaul with the Chiefs.

Now bearing in mind my experiences with celebrities, you can understand my reluctance to go. But Candice wanted to see Steven so we went.

We ended up at Vaca Matta in Monte Casino where Steven Donald, Liam Messam, Sione Lauaki, Richard Kahui and a few of the junior players were drinking at the bar. Candice introduced me as her brother to avoid the awkwardness and the boys just accepted me in their group of friends and we partied hard together.

WOW WHAT AN EXPERIENCE. You spend your life watching these boys play their hearts out, playing rugby at the highest level, you idolise these boys, and then you end up drinking with them.

To offset the HEAT Magazine, no the boys were not pissed, and were very well behaved.

What surprised me is that the guys you never expected to party are the biggest partiers on the team. Speaking to Ben May, Chiefs prop, I said the last person I expected to bust some moves on the dance floor is the Big Man Sione Lauaki. He looks at me and says: “Ah Mate Lauaki loves this.”

Although all of the guys are great guys I really had the greatest time with new squad member Tobi Lynn. Before Sunday the 26th of April, Tobi Lynn had never tried a Hunters Dry. So he had one with me and didn’t stop with them the whole evening.

Every evening with Candice has classical chirps. At the bar Candice is running her mouth saying what a big Chiefs fan I am and that I am the most knowledgeable rugby person she has ever met. Donald, Lauaki, and Messam obviously thought she was talking crap so they threw the questions at me:
Lauaki: Which island is Taranaki on?
Me: North Island.
Donald: Capital of New Zealand?
Me: Wellington
Messam: Who had his testicle rucked off in a game against the Wallabies in the 1980s
Me: Buck Shelford.

And here comes the classical chirp: Richard Kahui who was watching this said: F’ing hell boys, he knows more about New Zealand rugby then 3 All Blacks.

Oh yes. To answer the question about if Paul Gascoigne is a nutter in real life, trust me, HE IS!

Crunch Time

Howdie Howdie.

So it’s the easter period and a crucial time for the Super 14. I’ve let the ball slip a bit with the predictions, but I hope to be back on track next week.

What looked like a very mediocre weekend in the Super 14 is actually turning out to be one of the most crucial weekends of the tournament.

The two teams that have a bye have it at a time when they need to recuperate and find some inspiration. The Sharks have been playing Shit over the last two weeks and this is coming from a die-hard sharks fan.

We already have two results with the Stormers breaking their loosing streak and the Lions getting a hiding in Perth.

What can we look forward to tomorrow? Well the first Saturday game sees the Blues host the Reds. The Blues are currently on 28 points with 3 points in sight against the ailing Reds. A win in Auckland will see the Blues on 31 points, the same as the Chiefs and the Sharks. However, they will jump to the top of the log courtesy of their high number of bonus points. The Blues are on form and Rene Ranger will be hoping to threaten the whitewash in an attempt to claim yet another bonus point for the once upon a time champions. They have the mettle to do it, Blues by 10.

Then we see two teams that are keen for a semi final spot playing each other. The Hurricanes play host to a Brumbies team that will be playing every game form here out for the late Shaun MacKay. If the Hurricanes win they will then surpass the Blues at the top of the table with 32 points. If the Brumbies win they will move into 3rd, with the Bulls vs Chiefs game still to come.

I think the Hurricanes have a point to prove, being the highest rated New Zealand team to never win the tournament be it Super 10, 12 or 14. However, the Brumbies are off the piss and want to win the tournament. My head says the Hurricanes by 10 but don’t put the house on it.

The next two games, if played with a South African final in mind can help the Sharks and Bulls immensely in the tournament.

The Cheetahs host the Crusaders in Bloem with an upset on the cards. An epic battle between Juan Smith and Richie McCaw will be the highlight of the match.

If the Cheetahs win, they will have a reason to get drunk and listen to DE LA RAY DE LA RAY on repeat for the rest of the evening. However, that will mean that the Crusaders will not have a hope of making the Semi Finals.

The highflying Chiefs are in Pretoria to play the Bulls. Both are must wins for each team as the Bulls will finish the week at the top of the log should they win. Should the Chiefs win they will retain their position.

It’s the closest super rugby tournament to date. Only 5 points separate the top 8 teams! Chances are that the Semi Finals will be decided on bonus points. This will make the Sharks and Brumbies, each on three bonus points, and the Waratahs and Crusader, each on 4 bonus points, worry a bit.

Deciding the Super 14 semi finals on bonus points is like deciding the Barclay Card English Premiership on goal difference. It just isn’t fair!

There were calls in the past for a round of quarterfinals, which will see an equal playing field going into the finals. However, this will be quite a way off as Sanzar is focusing more on extending the number of teams in the tournament.

Go into Africa and you will learn to appeciate South Africa

All the readers and fans of the Lions Den are probably wondering why the hell I never made my Super 14 predictions last week and have not even mentioned that the Sharks are playing a bit shit at the moment.

After I came back from my holiday in Durban, my company saw it fit to punish me and send me to Zambia for three days to cover a mine opening.

And let me tell you about Zambia. I had fun, I really did, but Zambia is F’D Up. Anyone who complains about South Africa and the way it is becoming should be strung up and be forced to spend 3 days in downtown Lusaka or Solwezi.

I can guaren-damn-te it that they will appreciate South Africa.

The purpose of my visit to Zambia was to attend the opening of Africa’s biggest greenfield copper mining project, the Lumwana project. The schedule was pretty tight with the South African delegation being flown in by charter flights.

So I get to the plane and it’s a 20-seater aircraft that I cant stand upright in! Already not good! Then the seats were so cramped that the armrest was jabbing into my side the whole flight.

Now I don’t trust any plane that dont have jet engines on the wing, so I was a bit concerned when the plane had two outboard propellers. I got stuck at a window that looks onto the wing, and halfway through the flight I notice that there is a F ING LOOSE BOLT ON THE WING! So during a 3 hour flight, I spent 1 ½ hours feking focused on the loose bolt. I was so ready to drop the pilot as soon as we landed!

So we arrive at Lusaka international and there is one plane in the whole airport! I couldn’t believe it. The Fekking place was like Sleepy Hollow! The pilot then tells me that the airport is usually like this with an average of one plane arriving at the airport every three hours. Now lets put this in context, air traffic at OR Thambo averages 15 planes an hour, Harare International 9 planes an hour and Jomo Kenyata , Kenya’s national airport, 7 planes an hour. So one plane every three hours should make Lusaka International the deadest place on earth!

We were put up in the Intercontinental Lusaka, which is the best hotel in the country. It’s a five star hotel which I had one gripe about.

It’s a five star by Zambian Standards, but a three and a half star bed and breakfast by South African standards. However, the Zambians are not scared to charge you bladdy Burj Al Arab (seven star) prices! For a single room where the aircon doesn’t work all the time unless you put your rooms key card in a holder, the fridge is empty, and there aint even a bathrobe to steal the Zambians are charging you $450 a night!

So we whent for dinner the night of our arrival to the Lusaka Sports Club which houses the highly recommended Marlin restaurant. You open the menu and the bastards are charging you 56 000 kwatcha for a T Bone steak. I was interested to see this so I ordered one, and when it came, in true African style, they bring you half a cow on a plate! I wont lie to you this thing must have weighed at least 1 and a half kg.

The only gripe I had about Zambia is the fact that we spent basically 2 ½ days travelling for half a days event! On the Friday we were up at 4:45 am to catch a flight from Lusaka to Solwezi. We arrive at the airport and the bastards had another charter flight waiting for us. This thing was even smaller then the first plane where I basically had to crawl to my seat. The plane had a propeller on the nose of the plane, could only seat 8 people, has a top speed of 80 kms an hour, and a SCOUSE PILOT dragged straight out of the slums of Liverpool! Once we landed in Solwezi we took a bus to Lumwana. Lumwana is in the North Western province of Zambia, which is rural. Driving to the mine brought back memories of my travels to Mozambique in 2004. You see 10 km of F All, then a few huts, then a main street of shops where the whole town congregates.

The event was due to start at 10 am, but it was attended by the Zambian president who had to talk crap to the tribal chiefs for an hour and a half before the thing started. As with all openings, there are a lot of speeches to go through and the speeches were not terribly long, except for the fact they had a interpreter bastard who had to translate every paragraph from English into Thsware!

After the opening it was on the bus again to Solwezi and on the same SCOUSE AIRWAYS charter flight to Lusaka.

One thing that must be said about the Zambians is that they love their president. The pres attended the event which was attended by 1 000 locals with only two bodyguards with gats! In SA the bladdy Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry has a 15 man police escort wherever she goes!

I highly recommend traveling in Africa purely because nowhere else in the world will you get a situation that the beer is cheaper then the cooldrinks!

A bottle of coke, there are very few cans in Zambia, costs you 5 000 kwatcha while a bottle of Mosi beer costs 4 000 kwatcha! I am not a beer drinker! I don’t like the strong bitter taste of the South African beers. But I was in Zambia and had to try a Mosi.

It is actually a nice beer, well rounded and brewed with water from a spring near the Mosi-oa-Tunya, which is Thsware for the Smoke that Thunders, which normal people know as the Victoria Falls!

Here again the Intercontinental Zambia are scaly bastards! At the Safari Bar in the Intercontinental, the beer costs 11 500 kwatcha. So I took a walk in downtown Lusaka at 8 pm to find Mosi beer for 4 000 kwatcha. I found it at the BP garage down the street which sold every liquor available in Zambia. Let me repeat that in bold for you. YOU CAN GO TO A BP GARAGE IN ZAMBIA AND BY ALCOHOL! Imagine how molar the South Africans would get if that were possible here! Warren Jaffer would be in heaven!

Anyway its election day tomorrow! And the Alexandra massive are going to boycott the election because they are upset about RDP houses! Now these people are reasoning like C&*%S! Im sorry to say it, and I apologise too those who take offense to my cussing! But they are reasoning like C&*%S! Instead of using their votes to vote out the African Ninja turtle Congress, they wont vote at all!

ONLY IN SOUTH AFRICA! O.N.L.Y I.N. S.O.U.T.H A.F.R.I.C.A!

South Africa, the new Wild West?

According to a worldwide poll conducted by experts, South Africa is rated the most violent country in the world with a violent crime occurring every 10 minutes somewhere in the country.

Although I don’t believe in averages, I think that the violent nature of the country must not be underestimated.

Over the past two years, the Johannesburg CBD has become somewhat like Tombstone Arizona in the 1800's with gunfights reminiscent of the great ‘Gun Fight at O.K Coral’ being a regular occurrence.

The latest incident occurred yesterday when the Askria opened fire with rubber bullets on a crowd of striking truck drivers who are 'peacefully' protesting about wages. This is less then a month after the 5 0 fired rubber bullets into a crowd of 'peacefully' striking taxi drivers. As you can see, the South African Police Service doesn't like peaceful protests.

It is REALLY scary to think that in less then 30 days, there have been two gunfights in South Africa’s financial capital.

My favorite incident was last year when the JMPD went on strike in the JHB CBD and the SAPS opened fire with live rounds. Not to be outdone, the JMPD took out their six-shooters and returned the fire.

This would have been fine, except that the gunfight took place at 4:30 pm when town is gridlocked with people going home from work.

This could pose a problem during 2010 when the eyes of the world will be on South Africa during the FIFA World Cup. Imagine South Africa’s international image should there be such a gunfight during the world cup? And don’t think this is not a possibility, Government will be well advised to get their house in order, because already the crowd in South Africa is fickle and will TOI TOI at the drop of a hat.

But is there a solution in sight? Seemingly not, when you have the future president of South Africa jumping up and down on a stage making himself look like a TIT singing about machine guns, the light at the end of the tunnel seems very dim indeed!

In the past, when a situation like this presented itself, a lawman of some rapport was called in to find a resolution.

In the summer of 1881, desperado’s who were hell bent on lawlessness and general skulduggery overran Tombstone Arizona. In response, the marshal’s office called in the famous lawman Wyatt Earp to assist his brothers Virgil Earp and Morgan Earp to rid the town of the desperados. One gang in particular was a problem, the Earp’s, assisted by Doc Holiday took to the town square and confronted the Clanton Gang which ultimately resulted in the most famous gunfight in history, The Gunfight at O.K Coral. Three of the Clanton’s were killed with only two of the Earp’s injured.

Now this is all heroic and stuff, but imagine getting a lawman such as Wyatt Earp in South Africa to sort out our problems? The Clanton Gang only numbered 10 people. TOI TOIing locals number thousands at a time! 100 Wyatt Earps cant sort out our problems.

The other route would be to hire a gunman/bounty hunter to target specific perpetrators.

Between 1878 and 1881, Billy the Kid was the most wanted desperado in the Wild West, by all accounts he was the second most wanted desperado of all time behind Jessie James. His reign of terror was so great that lawman Patrick ‘Pat” Garrett was hired as a bounty hunter to assassinate the Kid.

Whats interesting to note is that the price on the Kids head at the time was a measly $500.

Now who the FEK would such a lawman in South Africa target? If you kill the one, a more evil bastard will just take his place.

Watching The Magnificent Seven on the weekend it was brought to the attention of the audience that it must have been nice to live in the Wild West. Someone pisses you off, you take out your gat and shoot them down, no court case, no blood feuds no license for the gat nothing. Mind you, how different is South Africa presently?

Violent President?

Greetings to the Lions Den Massive.

Its seems like an age since I posted something new on this site. In my defence I was in Durban and did not have the necessary tools, ie a sober mind, to post anything of great relevance.

So its election week next week and there are still some people who are undecided as to who their vote must go to.

I was contemplating this on the weekend and coming to grips with the fact that we are going to be seeing our first ever Zulu pres!

This is a source of delight to some and to the majority of KZN. However, as one voter told me on the weekend, he doesn’t like the prospect of having a Zulu in power because of their violent nature.

I really took this with a pinch of salt as every nationality has the capacity to be violent, I mean the Lion of Lebanon really came out twice this weekend! But I did see some resemblance of the violence truth this weekend.

Going into Durban from Pinetown, you stop at a taxi rank which you can either turn left or right at. The highway takes you to this spot and it is unavoidable. I had my cousins in the car and got caught by the robot. Next thing a bunch of Zulus start screaming at this one guy who did his best ‘JESSIE OWENS’ with a handbag in his hand. Next thing this old bastard at the taxi rank brandishes a gat and is about to try out his gun toting brilliance when ‘JESSIE OWENS’ ran behind a car and disappeared into the sunset.

Now granted everyone has a right to defend themselves, but the way that the old bastard drew his gat ‘HARRY CASUAL’ scared me because this shows he has no regard for the human lives that he could have put in danger.

Driving down to the beach I saw a poster for the Minority Front which said ‘vote for the tiger’. Now I thought that this rocket scientist was a follower of my site and decided to include tiger in his name, but it turns out that the leader of the part is none other then A Rajbansie Tiger, and he has a HUGE following in KZN. Imagine if he became pres?

Patricia De Lille and Helen Zille are having a go at the African Ninja turtle Congress after it emerged that the party was handing out food parcels to rally up votes!

Although I agree that this is wrong, what is politics but playing on peoples emotions? If Helen Zille was clever, which she clearly is not, she would buy copious British and Irish Lions test tickets and give them away to potential voters.

April the 22nd will be interesting as the week will be marred with last ditch efforts to rally up votes.

Specking of votes, I watched my first episode of the new series of idols this week! By all accounts it was good, except for the fact that Graham is defiantly a poo staber!

The show also made me remember how much I love Stevie Wonder! Jason did a really mean version of Signed Sealed Delivered which was almost as good as the original.

Say what you want about Mr Wonder, he was a musical genius who really pushed the boundaries and created music very different from the music around at the time. He can be seen as the first real pioneer of the R&B genre.

Rugby Focus

It’s a sad sad day for rugby.

A week after been run over by a security van outside a Durban night club, Brumbies player Shawn McCay passed away last night in a Durban hospital.

McCay contracted a blood infection, which brought on cardiac arrest, which proved fatal.

This doesn’t say much for medical standards in South African hospitals if a person can contract a fatal infection in ICU, which is supposed to be the safest place in the hospital.

My thoughts and prayers go out to the family and team mates of McCay.

In other news, Peter De Villiers has given SARU seven days to initiate disciplinary action against Cheeky Watson after the whole Baboon incident. At the time of the incident, Watson claimed that him and De Villiers were good friends, and one would think that good friends don’t go around seeking disciplinary action against others.

But then again whenever Cheeky is involved, there is trouble.

Same with his piss willie son Luke. Granted he is the form of his life, and is actually letting his rugby do the talking instead of his mouth. However, me thinks this wont be enough to warrant a selection in the team.

Last week De Villiers reported that the team dynamics of the Springboks will be key, after Watson’s statements last year that he wanted to arif on the springbok jersey pissed off a few senior players. These players will find it hard to get along with him should he be included now.

SARU has accommodated Watson to a degree by moving the Springbok to the left hand side of the jersey and incorporating the King Protea on the right, but this just means that Watson will arif on half of the jersey.

Because it is easter week and I am going away, I thought I'd do my predictions on a Monday this week.

First up, on Good Friday, the Blues host the Lions. The Blues are fresh off a rest week and are back at home in their beloved Eden Park where they beat the Waratahs two weeks ago. The Lions are fresh off tossing the game against the Chiefs where they had the perfect opportunity to do other teams in the competition a favor.

The Lions looked very good in stages, André Pretorius looked like he was to his old best, but then missed four UNFORGIVABLE kicks.

Form suggests that the Blues will win, and I agree. Blues by 10.

Next up is the Force against the Hurricanes. The Force are making a charge for the Semi Finals, however, the horse has bolted, and the Hurricanes are on form. Zac Guilford and Ma’a Nonu were in good form against the Sharks and should carry that form over to Perth. Canes by 10.

First up on Saturday is the Highlanders hosting the Reds. I don’t think the Reds can win and it will be interesting to see if Jimmy Cowen can establish himself as a front runner for the All Black scrum-half berth. Highlanders by 15.

The Brumbies are back at home and will want to play well in memory of McCay, they host Luke Watson because the rest of the Stormers team is playing so shit that they don’t deserve a mention. Luke, as good as he thinks he is the ERR, cant beat 15 men by himself, Brumbies by 20.

The Bulls travel to Sydney to face a Waratahs team that is once again on form, The Bulls need to win this game to have any hopes of a home semi final. And if they loose this game then there is a huge possibility that they wont even make the Semi Finals! I think the Bulls are on a loosing streak that will see them not qualify for the Semi Finals, Waratahs by 5.

The final game of the Easter Super Weekend is the Cheetahs hosting the Sharks. The Sharks are in the type of form that will see them win the tournament without loosing another game. Sharks by 15.

HAPPY NATIONAL CLEAVAGE DAY

Ya Aira! How could I miss this in this mornings post.

HAPPY NATIONAL CLEAVAGE DAY TO ALL OF THE MEN OUT THERE, and to the woman out there if you are that way inclined.

I discussed an issue with my mate while trying to break the 10 km barrior in 20 minutes on the bicycle at gym the other day and the topic swung to the appreciation of the female form while involved with a significant other.

I asked him if he was comfortable in his relationship to say too his girlfriend that another passing woman was attractive. He said yes and reasoned that his girlfriend will be happy to know that he can find other woman attractive, so long as he doesn’t touch.

Which leads me to my other topic of the day, going to strip joints when involved.

Now before I open the can of worms too far let me state that I am a good catholic boy and don’t approve on the CONTINUOUS FREQUENTATION of these den’s of inequity, but then again, I am a man so I wont say that I don’t ever go to them.

The last time I was there I was very surprised to see how many people were in the place for a weeknight. And was pondering how many of these people were involved or worse married. The waitress who was putting the drinks down at the table looked at me and told me in no uncertain terms that these people were involved and that they were there to get away from their wives, fiancé’s and girlfriends.

How bladdy sad is that! First of all, if you are going to a place like that your relationship is in shit! PLANE AND SIMPLE! If you need to go to a strip club to escape your significant other WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING WITH THAT SIGNIFICANT OTHER?

Single men in a place like that is a different story!

The dynamics of a strip club fascinates the hell out of me. We have discussed the first two attendee groups there, ie: involved men and non involved men. But what about involved men who bring their significant other to the place.

And this happens! When you walk into any strip club you are bound to find three or four couples at the place.

The last time I was there we were stuck at a table next to a couple. Every table dance the man told the stripper in no uncertain terms to focus her attention on his girlfriend! Rather then him! This sounds thick I know, but he then told me that it was to get his girlfriends confidence up. They both then went for a private dance. The reasoning behind this is simple. It gives the girlfriend the opportunity to look at the seduction of her boyfriend from an outsiders view.

The next group of focus is the foreigners, who always make a stop in their international tour because of the exchange rate. The girls can possible make up to 5 grand an evening should they pick the right men.

The last group are the men who are not allowed to be there for religious reasons.

I spent two years in Dubai and became familiar with the faces of the top celebrities and dignitaries from the region. On a night at ‘Uncle Lollie’s’ I was dumbfounded to see a top Arab dignitary walk in with a top Arab celebrity and get a table at the back of the place. Needless to say they were the focus of the evening.

Got To Love the Brits!

There is nothing like a meeting of world's leaders to insite mass scenes of random violence.

Currently world leaders have converged on London, England for the G20 summit, which is basically a bunch of overweight imbeciles trying to solve the world's problems.

How different is this to any Baron or Keg on a Friday night? Well, these people are actually paid to solve the worlds problems.

The participants in the G20 summit are the presidents from the worlds leading nations.

Top on the agenda this year is the Global Financial Crisis.

You gotta love Brits, there is a saying that goes ‘The mob is fickle’ and I’m sure it was an Englishman that said this.

Last year, Britain was in euphoria when Gordon Brown was elected British Prime Minister. Similar scenes were played out when Barrack Obama was elected US President.

8 months on, those same Brits who were singing Brown’s and Obama’s praises are chanting: 'SHAME ON YOU SHAME ON YOU!' followed by ‘BROWN OUT BROWN OUT!’ and finally ‘OBAMA IS A WANKER OBAMA IS A WANKER!’ before trashing the Bank of Scotland.

Riot police were mobilised to London and were greeted with the chant ‘Who’s the bastards in black’, a Pakistani Englishman then moved to the back of the crowd and took a sledge hammer too the window of the Bank of Scotland! The police then got out a huge ass water cannon and fired onto the crowd who took their shirts off and chanted ‘WE AINT GOING NO WHERE! WE AINT GOING NO WHERE!’

Gotta love them.

These scenes actually took me back to my days in Dubai where chanting like this was common place.

Brit mentality is legendary. I lived in Dubai for two years and was surrounded by them. One of my mates was a staunch Chelsea F.C supporter, and we used to go to the location of the Chelsea fan club in Dubai, Fibber Magees, to watch the game.

It actually wasn’t a bad place, it was pretty small and had a very Irish pub feel to it, by 30 mins before kick off of a football match the place would fill up with fans from opposing teams and they would begin chanting. One game Liverpool was giving Chelsea a hiding so the Liverpool fans starting singing ‘Steve Gerraaaad Gerraaaad, He’s better then Frank Lampaaaaard, He’s quick and he's fooking haaaaaaaard, Steve Gerraaaaad Gerraaaad’ [sung to the tune of Kay Sera Sera]

Another occasion, it was Euro 2008 qualifiers, England was playing Sweden while Scotland was playing Israel. Now bear in mind how much the Scots and the English love each other yeah! Remember Braveheart? Anyway, England were struggling against Sweden while Scotland was giving Israel a hiding. The Scots were happy and started to sing ‘Oh Flower of Scotland’ while stamping there feet in their kilts in Fibber Magees, the English supporters would then chant ‘You never won f&*k all, you never won f$%k all. F%^K ALL, you never won f$%k all, you never won f^&k all!’ the Scots took exception to this turned around and chanted ‘WHATS WHATS WHATS THE SCORE? ’

Verbal abuse over a soccer match being played thousands of miles away!

This what we are going to have to put up with in just over a years time!

Gotta love the Brits.