Becks: Bring on the Heat, Bring on the Banging

Come on England! I’m gettin fired up for Portugal now. Our best chance is to approach the match like its Germany or Argentina.

Up n at ‘em!

You don’t eat nothing since 66. Portugal is a fine side and the dutch deserved all they had.
And you english people never learn from your mistakes. You guys have been brainwashed for centuries. 2o per cent of england is a world class elite the rest are a bunch of fucking baldy
yobs with an extreme lack of knowledge about everything.
we will teach you some manners because your peers have already given up. so stop being a bunch of arrogant ignorants and respect the others…..ta ta

Just a comment to our anti-english portuguese friend here. I think your “baldy yob” ratio is a little inaccurate.
I’m english and currently living in germany and before coming here i’ve lived in quite a few places on the globe and no matter where i go i hear the same old anti-english bigotry, all of which refer to the “baldy yob” MINORITY living in england but unfortunately get caught up in the international press and show the decent english MAJORITY up but sadly ALL english get the same label, including the decent MAJORITY because the international press likes to portray only the english in a bad light i.e. by endlessly showing the riots and claiming that ALL english are like this. At least when i was back in england i saw a lot more tolerance towards people from other cultures…’ignorants’ are we? i’v certainly met a lot more ignorance during my time away than i ever did back when i was in england.
Our baldy yobs will always leave a stain on the english image and i regret that very much but the majority of us english are a proud, decent and friendly people and let anybody dare tell me otherwise.
Portugal i wish you all the best and if you win i’ll be celebrating your victory along with all my good portuguese friends i’v met over here but i’ll still be waving the english flag high.

strange how portuguese supporters always sink into invective and vilification..lowest common denominator i suppose..like they can’t even be funny on these blogs..sad. “come on punk, make my day!”

Well not all portuguese fans are like that.In fact, I’ve never heard a negative comment coming from a portuguese towards other nation until I came here.don’t judge us based on what one or two people say,stereotyping is very dangerous.most of us are as respectful of other nations as we are proud of our own.
Good luck England, may the best team win!

Two Comments:

1. Shawn, your heading “bring on the heat, bring on the banging” was …how do I say?…a little misleading.

2. These comments contain some of the worst trash talk I’ve ever seen.

i lived in london for 12 years I know what i’m talking about. Some of my best friends are english maybe I went a bit overboard with the ratio . I would say 60% yobs and the rest nice people. I’m not anti-english my kids support england…..
I agree with what some of you said about my words. maybe i’m in the wrong blog….
I wanted a reply from one of the yobs so that I could have a little fun…
regarding the guy who said he never heard a bad comment from a portuguese towards another nation……you still believe in santa?

I haven’t lived in England but having conversed with English people, there doesn’t seem to be anymore tolerance of “other cultures” or “different” people in England than in any other western country. That is, there is indeed much intolerance and bigotry in England but that can also apply to Canada and the USA. To single out England is simply inaccurate.

The only bang’n Becks will be doing will be those golden-balls against Posh’s posterier!

Yeah…please don’t stereotype all PT fans.

I’m Portuguese, raised in the US, and love the EPL all season long. I love Lampard, Gerrard, Rooney, Lennon, and Terry among others, but on Sunday they will face a different kind of team. I watched this team progress over the last two years. Scolari has convinced every one of his players, that they each have a destiny to fulfill. After Euro2004, 2nd best just won’t do.

I think England’s chances are 50-50. If England out perform and Portugal under perform, then you have a chance. Portugal hasn’t even gotten it’s offense fired up yet. All 4 victories were modest in terms of goals scored. For your sake, you better hope you catch them on a bad day before they click. Without Deco, the midfield is different, but they’ll still get it done. Don’t uderestimate the boys in red.

I hope we get a fantastic match. May the best team win!

Força Portugal!

Punk, Do you really think a Yob would come on here and blog, they are not true supporters of football.

I am English and I am very embarrassed when so called football supporters riot cause injury,damage, even death to other supporters. True English supporters follow their teams with respect and will always admire and respect the opposition.

I think the teams left in the WC all have a good chance of making it to the finals and I say May the Best Team win.

Personally I would really like to see Ukraine go further and of course England. However having said that if England do not improve the standard of play and stop making it so boring to watch then I feel it will be pretty tough for them.

Big Banana, You are definately obessed with Becks Golden Balls and his tackle arn’t you? You say you have a big banana to match your name in a previous post.. Mmmm a small one to match your brain I think is more likely.

To the Observer…
I wasn’t singling out england and I do agree that there is intolerance and bigotry in england just as there is everywhere…i’m just talking from my own experiences.
There is a stereotype about us english girls in some countries (I’m not mentioning which!) where a number labels us all as sluts and claims that “we’d enjoy getting raped!” Thankfully I have never come across this dangerous stereotyping in england and if i did then i would want to stay in germany…i guess i was talking previously out of resentment in light of this and i was certainly not claiming that england is ‘angelic’

Next Saturday i’ll have some stakes “beef” for lunch, please. If you can’t joke about this sort of things what can you joke about, Bush?….

Ó Luis vai papar almondegas e ve lá tens tino nessa pinha que gostar de tantos gajos diferentes é complicado.

lets be real both teams are shit scared of each other. But still I think Portugal has the better footie…

Come on England!!
A big game 2morro and I’m getting fired up (like binary bloke!)
Just hope ‘our’ hooligans take a back seat and let our REAL fans give us some good press (even tho that might take a few years!)
Good luck Portugal – we’re facing a tough competitor!

Tork, you’re an idiot. I’m a football fan, not just a PT fan, and remarks like that give the rest of us a bad name.

some historical information do you know why the portuguese have five castles whithin the templar cross on their badges and flag?
because our ancestors fought five muslim armies in one single battle and won….

what do the three lions mean?

Easy…
Richard the Lionheart used the Three Lion’s Crest during the Crusades where he conquered much of the ancient world. The Crest appeared on his second great seal and since the Three Lions have come to represent England…
rrrrooooaaarrr!!

And the Three Lions have always represented bravery and nobility since the time of the Crusades

nice stuff!! tanx for the info…

when the templars were persecuted and killed in france some of the most proeminent fled to sctoland and portugal, in portugal they were absolved of all “crimes” and their name changed to the order of christ,with the knowledge they had inherited from the conquest of jerusalem they knew of distant lands and they departed on their discovery. the age of discovery had begun… and we still carry the templar cross..

Btw punk…where did the name portugal come from?
I know ‘port’ could mean port but where does the rest of it come from…has it got something to do with Galicia?
I’m studying world history so I’m just interested

lusitania was the name of what is today the center of portugal
after the roman conquest. When the small kingdoms from the north of the iberic peninsula started the re-conquest of the rest of the peninsula (occupied then by the muslims)a few lands were offered to the warriors that fought the battles. A portion of territory which is now the north of portugal was called portocale which derives from the word port(as seaport)whic is the city of Oporto and the village on the other side of the river called “cale” which today is “gaia” where the cellars of the port wine are kept. and so the name portugal

I like this thread. What a lovely exchange of cultural information just before the battle. Well, done! Lets show the Dutch what football is all about this Saturday.

Força Portugal!

Hey Tork…go tell Mourinho that I shouldn’t admire,lampard, Terry etc. They are great players and just becuase I want Portugal to crush England tomorrow, doesn’t mean I can’t appreciate great talent. We don’t live in a one dimensional world folks!

Força Portugal!

do you guys know the oldest alliance between two countries is between portugal and england
900 years…. most ancient….
lisbon was conquered with the help of some english war ships
amazing stuff ha…?

“de couves cruas, mulheres nuas e papa almondegas estão as sepulturas cheias”

Looking forward to tonights game, really excited. May the best Team Win (I hope it is England) as long as it is fair play and good soccer thats all we can ask.

Cheers enjoy the match

Friends, England will win. Nothin to worry. and we becks fans are going to enjoy the game.

England : 3

Portugal: 0

This would be result of today’s match and the next match i would come and post for that later.

muy bien ELIZONDO!!! one red card per island stolen by the pirates.

Next….

once again we proved that on the crucial moments we do it better

come on portugal whoever comes will die!!!!!!!!!!!!

Forca portugal

england is going home , is going home, is going home, is going…
three lions on a shirt…..

well…
although portugal won..
but at last…just be the fourth..lost to germany..

portugal..nothing wrong with the team..
i just don’t like c.ronaldo…
he is so tricky.
he caused wayne rooney to get red card..
actually if not him..
mayb rooney’ll just get a warning yellow card..

although not all is ronaldo’s fault..but 50% is his fault..
and why he want to pretend the ‘painfull emotion’ when people accidentally kicked him or watever la..he’s so tricky..