strange comments or just me?

[Nigels Tackle]

http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/27895655

[DoomMerchant]

What's strange about that? The French are the most racist people I've ever met in Europe. Granted I haven't been to the Balkans tho.

[Cit.revenge]

What's strange about that? The French are the most racist people I've ever met in Europe. Granted I haven't been to the Balkans tho.

We are not racist , we mostly hate each other :D

[Foreverinbluedreams]

Just you, although BAE is nowhere near good enough to even be considered for that squad so good thing for him that he chose to declare for Cameroon.

[Nigels Tackle]

Just you, although BAE is nowhere near good enough to even be considered for that squad so good thing for him that he chose to declare for Cameroon.

when he hangs up his boots, do you think he'll move back to france or cameroon?

[Foreverinbluedreams]

Just you, although BAE is nowhere near good enough to even be considered for that squad so good thing for him that he chose to declare for Cameroon.

when he hangs up his boots, do you think he'll move back to france or cameroon?

No

[BlueinBosnia]

Just you, although BAE is nowhere near good enough to even be considered for that squad so good thing for him that he chose to declare for Cameroon.

when he hangs up his boots, do you think he'll move back to france or cameroon?

He said in an interview 2 or 3 years ago that when he retires he wants to move to France and train for the police. I think he said something along the lines of "I don't like being a footballer. My dad made me do it, and I only play for the money. When I retire, I want to join the police, as it's been what I wanted to do ever since I was a kid".

I'll try to dig up the interview now.

Edit: Cannot find a reference to the police in the article, but I'm sure I've read it somewhere. http://www.theguardian.com/football/201 ... am-hotspur

However, this is interesting:

Assou-Ekotto is beginning to look ahead to the World Cup finals with Cameroon. Although he was born in France and has a French mother, there has never been any issue over his allegiance. Like many young people in France born to an immigrant parent or parents, he feels that "the country does not want us to be part of this new France. So we identify ourselves more with our roots.

"Me playing for Cameroon was a natural and normal thing. I have no feeling for the France national team; it just doesn't exist. When people ask of my generation in France, 'Where are you from?', they will reply Morocco, Algeria, Cameroon or wherever. But what has amazed me in England is that when I ask the same question of people like Lennon and Defoe, they'll say: 'I'm English.' That's one of the things that I love about life here."

That article is over 4 years old, so it's hardly a newly-adopted view.

[BlueinBosnia]

What's strange about that? The French are the most racist people I've ever met in Europe. Granted I haven't been to the Balkans tho.

We are not racist , we mostly hate each other :D

Hmm. Historically, (Socialist) Yugoslavia was far more racially mixed than most Socialist countries, due to a hell of a lot of Africans coming here for education (for political reasons - you could get a decent education that your government could afford, while at the same time being able to one day emigrate to the West, unlike with an Eastern Bloc education). Black people have been within society since the early 1960s in major urban areas. Africans have never really been economic migrants here, either. On the flip side, the rise of fascist groups since the mid-80s, combined with a massive proportion of the population being uneducated peasants, mass rural-to-urban immigration post-1995, and the bottom falling out of the education system, particularly in B&H and Serbia, has led to racist views being far more prominent in all of the former Constituent Republics. I'd say the Former Yugoslav countries (from my experience) are far less racist than Belgium, still, in spite of all this.

[Dronny]

What's strange about that? The French are the most racist people I've ever met in Europe. Granted I haven't been to the Balkans tho.

We are not racist , we mostly hate each other :D

Ha ha ha, I was over in Normandy for the D Day commemorations and there was this WW2 veteran from Brittany on the next pitch. He had v poor English but made it abundantly clear he hated the French!! It transpired his Grandfather was an Earl from Ross, he also gave us a bottle of wine everyday so who were we to disagree with his dislikes :-)