Perhaps we should start with the iSport front page which reads:
"England-Racists 4-0"
In other words, England did not play against Hungary in the Puskás Arena, but against the "racists". OK, we got the message.
But then we have to say a few things. Let's start here "the day before yesterday", that is, in July, when the England-Italy Euro final took place. Question: Did the English fans boo the Italian national anthem? Yes, they got booed. Question: is there a bigger lumpenprole jerk, iSport-ul racism, than booing the anthem of another nation? Hardly. Are England fans proly jerk racists? Yes, iSport yes. Did UEFA deal with the racism and stupidity of the English? No, he didn't care.
Anyway, we can easily go a little further in time. For many decades, the earth did not carry a lumpenprolite smellier than the English fan. Wherever this vile herd went, it was crushed everywhere, leaving behind ruins, ragged and beaten people. It was so much so that there were years when these English smelly jerks were banned from practically everywhere, and at home they were forced to smash, dirty and fight. And if anyone still wants to see how a man is reduced to an animal, watch a real, well-done English bachelor party here in Budapest, in the party district.
But feel free to go even further in time! I would dwell a little on Lord Palmerston's saying: "England has no friends or enemies, England has interests." Well, here in "racist" Hungary, saying something like this or something like this would result in a slap and eternal ostracism, even in the last pub. On the other hand, this was (was?) the credo of England for centuries. This vile, selfish hyena mentality, this… how should I say it? Got it! Racism!
In practice, for example, this prevailed in such a way that when the Polish government-in-exile informed Churchill about what had happened in Katyn, he replied to the Poles by telling them to shut up, but they did not imagine that Stalin would be kicked out of the coalition against Hitler because of such a trifle.
It's delicious, isn't it? And anyway, the English land may not have had a more witty English politician, a more brilliant debater and statesman than Churchill - but he had no friends either, only his interests. Then the Poles, who had been fighting on the good side all along, received from the Allies as a reward what we received as a punishment: that is, forty years of communism and Soviet subjugation. The great, glass-gloved English, French and Americans practically left the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in place - minus Ribbentrop. Bravo... Because compared to Central and Eastern European peoples and nations, these brilliant Westerners have always been racist.
Anyway, not incidentally, the essence and creator of the British world empire was racism itself. The nice English have been very racist throughout their history, that's how they got rich - and now that the ice cream has licked back, they stupidly kneel on the turf of the football pitches, educate everyone about racism and anti-racism, and think that it's solved, it's done away with those many centuries of racism.
Not resolved.
And with a somewhat distorted message from one of the iconic sentences of Buñuel's brilliant film, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie: we want your opinion as a whole. And that's why we don't focus on your nation - as it is said in the film - because we identify your nation with Shakespeare, Byron, Yeats, Wodehouse and Monty Python.
Because we are not racists. They ask you to understand this and then to listen. Clear?
Psalm Bayer
Cover image: English fans throw a tree uprooted from the ground in London's Trafalgar Square before the Italy-England match of the 2020 European Football Championship, postponed to 2021 due to the coronavirus epidemic, on July 11, 2021. Photo credit: MTI/EPA Pool/Joshua Bratt
His published articles on this topic so far: We have become racist again...
