Argentina singing an Anti-English song in the changing rooms after their world cup win. Will FIFA come down on them like they did with the Ireland womens team?

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  3. They should, bringing up the falklands war is beyond stupid to say the least. A military Junta attacking a country for no other reason than to prop up their regime under some stupid guise of “real ownership” is a joke. Besides they got the shit kicked out of them I have no idea why you would bring it up

  5. They probably will.

    It’s the general rule that you don’t sing political songs or display symbols.

    The fai fined in 2016 for wearing the 1916to2016 badge on the shirt.

  7. It depends if the English media want to play the victim card again. The whole “scandal” with the women’s team was just an exercise in acting out some moral superiority. I don’t think any normal english person actually gives a fuck.

  9. To be fair it’s only really the English media that care, I personally as a Brit (Grandad being Irish) I personally couldn’t give two hoots if the woman’s team want to sing up the ra all night long and don’t really care if the Argies want to sing about a complete and abject failure.

    Complaining about it means its something worthy of caring about which neither of them are. Far too many people care too much about stuff a lot of them weren’t even alive when it was happening.

  11. Probably not because unlike the Irish women’s team they’re not singing the praises of an internationally proscribed terrorist organisation.

  14. If we had even the tiniest fraction of the patriotism they have, we would be a much better country. But instead we’re a bunch of moaners, complainers, and begrudgers.

  15. Damn some of you really go all out to try and find some way to get upset, even when it doesn’t have anything to do with Ireland.

    Also yes, they likely will be fined for it.

  17. If I got the shit kicked out of me in a fight I started I’d do everything in my power to make sure it was never talked about again but each to their own

  20. Is the song even anti English?

    It’s pretty clearly a song that is anti-Argentine Government of the time that sent kids to an unjust war

  23. No I’m ignoring the point as it’s irrelevant, people like the Irish who were invaded by the British will more than likely always support the likes of Argentina in pursuit of the lands that are rightfully theirs

  24. I’d consider that more severe since that’s actually anti-English whereas what the girls sang was pro-Irish

  26. No, because I bet there won’t be any self-hating Argentinians who have the fucking vapours over it like we had.

    And that’s the only reason anything happened to our women’s team – because those people made such a laughably big deal over it, it became a story.

  27. It’s the usual click bait shite lazy articles of ‘outrage over so and so’ type bullshit lazy filler journalism that references two or three tweets from nobodies then it becomes a ‘story’ somehow. Sure is it wrong? I guess so. Does anyone really, really give a shit? No.

  28. ironically the argnetinian government was a fascist junta with an openly supremacist system, I do not understand why this is okay, but irish rebel songs aren’t

  30. Probably not, after all Messi is they’re poster boy. He always gets handed player of the year awards even when someone else deserves it more. Have a bad season at Barcelona, no problem, here’s the ballon dor. They don’t want to upset him or his country men.

  31. FIFA did not punish the Irish women’s team. The 20k fine was levied by UEFA, who would have no jurisdiction at the World Cup

  33. I live in England, I’ve come across this story but it’s mostly the media moaning about it, can’t say I know anyone who gives a shit. It does make me laugh, however, that much of the English media covering this story are the same that will casually bring up the Falklands war or World War 2 to criticise Argentina or Germany without a second thought.

  35. ‘Republicanism’ is a filthy concept to many in this country, and especially to those in the media.

    The ‘article’ that Fintan O’ Toole – proclaimed to be one of our finest journalists – wrote after the “Up the ‘Ra” incident was one of the most cringeworthy and overblown things I’ve ever read.

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