Football

[jaycee]

[Doctor Drivel]

This comment demonstrates total and utter ignorance. This man is equating hooliganism with football. Appalling. utterly appalling. Shameful indeed.

[Doctor Drivel]

Mary, the enemies of football are the enemies of life itself.

[Andy Hall]

On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 23:16:54 +0100, Doctor Drivel wrote (in article ):

That would imply that it will die pretty quickly then since it's its own worst enemy.

How many of those silly flags have you got on your Primus?

[Owain]

Drivel doesn't have a Primus, he's not allowed one in case he sets fire to himself. The nurses give him his milky tea in a big plastic mug he can hold when wearing his woolly mittens with a string through his anorack.

Owain

[Doctor Drivel]

Matt, you are clearly insulting scum. How dare you describe the magnificent flag of England as silly! What does the flag of Narrow Minded Little Middle England look like?

[Guy King]

The message from "Doctor Drivel" contains these words:

Crossed Daily Mails rampant charged on a field of bile green.

[Doctor Drivel]

How fitting.

[Doctor Drivel]

I never thought Little Middle England and the Jockos would form an alliance. It is sad isn't it.

[Mary Fisher]

Wouldn't it have flared up on a camping stove?

Mary

[Andy Hall]

On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 09:53:14 +0100, Doctor Drivel wrote (in article ):

If this really was of true patriotic intent, people would have England flags in use much more of the time, like, for example, Danish people who very often have one on a pole in the garden.

An England flag is a simple red cross on a white background. It does not have "England" emblazoned across it, nor does it have some kind of crest, and it certainly doesn't have a photo of Beckham. I have seen all of these in the last few days.

So the reality of what we have here is media and retailer nonsense sucking in the gullible to waste their time and money. That is the most positive case, if one can describe it as that. The more negative connotation and display is of drunken thugs with no interest in the sport (such as it is, if you can call a money making enterprise like this a sport) running around causing trouble and inconvenience for everybody else.

These people are the insulting scum.

[Phil]

[Doctor Drivel]

Flags:

Note that the English flag of the George Cross on a white background, is one of the oldest flags in the world, first used by the Crusaders, with the first recoded usage in 1098. It is believed it is older than that.

[Doctor Drivel]

Flags:

Note the star in the top left hand corner:

Flags.

[Steve Firth]

Because it's not the flag of England, it's the flag of Venezia, and ok look St George patron saint of Venice.

[Doctor Drivel]

Flags:

Notice the red to the right hand side.

Flags.

[Doctor Drivel]

It is.

St. George is the patron saint of Aragon, Bavaria, Catalonia, Georgia, Lithuania, Palestine, Portugal, Germany and Greece; and of Moscow, Istanbul, Genoa and Venice (second to St Mark).

He is the patron saint of soldiers, cavalry and chivalry; of farmers and field workers, boy scouts and butchers; of horses, riders and saddlers; and of sufferers from leprosy, plague and syphilis. He is - remember Agincourt - the patron saint of archers.

[Stephen Gower]

So, the people with his flag on their car: they're suffering from all three, or just one?

[John Cartmell]

Britannica does make a couple of elementary mistakes and allows the reader to make some false assumptions. Certainly 13th century; is there a *contemporary* record from earlier to push that date earlier?

[Doctor Drivel]

"At the Church of St. George in Fordington, England, there is a sculpture of St. George on a horse leading the Crusaders to victory at the Battle of Antioch (June 1098); his flag bears a cross. It is known that English Crusaders used a red flag with a white cross about 1189."