quit whining about your anthem at Calzaghe vs Hopkins

[hulme#1]

All anthems should be respected as a matter of principle. The reception Tszyu and his anthem got in Manchester was a disgrace, to cite one instance.

What annoyed me most about the UK coverage of Undefeated was the inordinate bias apparent in the telecast presentation. Just that British Bulldog bull**** mentality, depressing - the whole build-up was one long nationalistic drooling session. Even the one Mayweather highlights reel they showed was a veiled dis', snidely soundtracked by Stevie's 'He's Misstra Know-It-All'. When I viewed the HBO coverage later on, not even a hint of an equivalent level of bias.

[Degsy]

That's somewhat ironic being that there are no bigger crybabys than the Brits.

Uhhhhh, how about the French, the Spanish and Italians? Have you seen the way their players react when they clash in a soccer match, let alone a boxing ring!!! Rolling over the floor like they'd been winged by a sniper rifle!!

[Degsy]

All anthems should be respected as a matter of principle. The reception Tszyu and his anthem got in Manchester was a disgrace, to cite one instance.

What annoyed me most about the UK coverage of Undefeated was the inordinate bias apparent in the telecast presentation. Just that British Bulldog bull**** mentality, depressing - the whole build-up was one long nationalistic drooling session. Even the one Mayweather highlights reel they showed was a veiled dis', snidely soundtracked by Stevie's 'He's Misstra Know-It-All'. When I viewed the HBO coverage later on, not even a hint of an equivalent level of bias.

That's not indiciative of the whole population, in the same way American citizens are not all evangelical rednecks praying for Armageddon. I personally wouldn't boo the US national anthem, as despite what many on this board may say, we owe them alot. Yes, things haven't been great under Bush, but the american constitution ensures that he can't serve a third term. The global warming stuff will sort itself out as the US are realising they will not want to be beholden to Russian or Arab energy suppliers - once their technological and economic might buys into renewable energy they'll have the last laugh on *****.

[hulme#1]

That's not indiciative of the whole population, in the same way American citizens are not all evangelical rednecks praying for Armageddon.

I just mean in the way that the British sports media goes out of its way to incite and fuel that kind of ****. I was kind of nonplussed by how much less partial the HBO coverage of the fight was. I know America isn't without its share of fist-pumping idiocy per se, but I just wish British broadcasters could take a lead from the US when it comes to covering boxing. I'd like to watch a fight telecast between a British and an American boxer without being subjected to Dave Clark's arched eyebrow Bulldog pride. I paid for Mayweather-Hatton, not a gaggle of supposedly objective pundits jerking off about 'Blighty'.

[CardioMonster]

It represents those who have died for their country.

And what noble deaths they were. Vietnam for instance, everyone knows their vast naval fleet was 10 nautical miles from the Californian coast line, ready to jump onto your shores.

Thanks for posting though, idiots like you just sum up my point.

How dare anyone boo the national anthem.

[Drunk Punch]

This thread is ugly, really ugly.

I believe it is utterly disrespectful to boo anyone's national anthem, especially at a sporting event.

I'm sure MOST British fight fans were embarrassed and appalled at the ****heads who boo'ed the US anthem, and the ones that think it was a justified reaction to US foreign policy are simply ******ed fools.

This is a SPORTING EVENT FFS...!!!

[MELLY-MEL...]

And what noble deaths they were. Vietnam for instance, everyone knows their vast naval fleet was 10 nautical miles from the Californian coast line, ready to jump onto your shores.

Thanks for posting though, idiots like you just sum up my point.

How dare anyone boo the national anthem.

your a clown, but the best part of this thread is you have shown what a piece of garbage you are, and have done nothing except flame this place, and try and start **** among members! very childish!

[Cuauhtémoc1520]

You can't tar all Americans with the same brush, same as you can't tar all Brits as booing thugs. The Regan doctrine of intervention was a response to the Soviet interventions in Hungary and Czechoslovakia and, like it or not their huge spending on arms and general economic strength made the soviets realise that the game was up (although ***** seems to be taking them down a shady path). OK Bush hasn't been great, but Clinton had the chance to take Osama out but dithered for so long he moved lairs, Clinton also refused to intervene in the Rwandan genocide. Although us Brits stood alone for a while, it was the USA economy and Russian manpower that won WW2 (7 out of 10 German soldiers were killed on the eastern front).

Take a look at the number of Nobel prizes 300 plus the US has won, they have made a massive contribution to civilization, they've only lost their way a little under Bush and the Evangelical Right, but they'll be back. Surely respecting a national anthem is a little courtesy we can all spare.

Also the Welsh national anthem kicks arse and makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up, it pisses on GSTQ for passion.

A little more love all round, lets concentrate on the boxing

Great post, finally an intelligent person on this board. The reason the US has contributeed so much to technology and medicine and the like, isn't because American's are smarter, it's because the American system has set up the competitive attitude to excell in those areas. Money is a hell of a motivator and if there's anything American's know how to do is make money. Capatilism has it's definite benefit's......

[QUOTE=squealpiggy;3177777]That's true but not in the way that you mean. The American lend-lease system kept the British war effort afloat until you came to your senses enough to send actual troops over to Europe. After all, without the British and the British colonial forces, eventually the US would also be speaking German. What, you think Hitler would have said "OK I conquered Britain and Europe, now I only have to conquer Russia and my work here is done!"? The truth is that without any one of the allies, the rest of the allies would be "speaking German" (well not exactly, the Germans didn't enforce German language in Poland, Czechoslovakia, France or anywhere else they conquered, but I'll overlook it as hyperbole) and that includes America. This was a World War, and it took a World Effort, from Canada, Australia, Africa, Burma, India, the United States, Britain and especially the Soviet Union.

The United States was instrumental in stopping the **** scourge but it wasn't like you boys in blue suddenly decided to rouse up the cavalry and save everyone's asses because you're just swell. As Churchill himself said:

"I'm sure we can count on the Americans to do the right thing. Just as soon as they have exhausted all other possibilities."

I will agree with you but at the same time, it's funny the way some of the people in Europe suddenly forget the US was fighting on two front's. The war in the Pacific wasn't some small scurmish that had no impact on the outcome of the war. Japan was only second in military might to the German's and the attack on Pearl Harbor would have cripled any other country other than the US.

America helped win that war with not only it's incredible ability to recoup the loss of Pearl Harbor with it's economic prowess and industry but also with the death's of 1/2 a million soldier's, 5th most of all the countries involved in the war. Let's not overlook that...........

[lennon]

The american anthem is awful and at these events is sung by horrible singers so why not boo and by all means boo God Save the Queen, we all do. The only decent version of God save the Queen was sung by THE sEX pISTOLS!

Politically America has fkked up the world recently and our PM became a laughing stock because of his love of Bush.

[Ras44]

All anthems should be respected. They represent many different people, their culture, their families, their land. I understand why some people may disrespect an anthem in the heat of the moment, but to argue that is is right to do so is completely different. I choose not to disrespect hundreds, thousands or millions of people who hold a flag, any flag, as a symbol of who they are.