French Rugby boss - 'we hate the English'

[pawnshop-guitars]

France coach Marc Lievremont has turned up the heat ahead of this weekend's Six Nations encounter with England at Twickenham by admitting: "We don't like the English."

Saturday's game will be pivotal in deciding the destiny of the Six Nations crown, with both teams boasting 100 per cent records after two games.

"We don't like them and it's better to say that than be hypocritical," Lievremont said. "We have a bit of trouble with the English.

"We respect them - well in my case at least I respect them. But you couldn't say we have the slightest thing in common with them."

He added: "We appreciate our Italian cousins with whom we share the same quality of life.

"We appreciate the Celts and their conviviality and then among all these nations we have one huge thing in common. We all don't like the English.

"We beat Ireland yet left Dublin with the encouragement of all the Irish who said 'for pity's sake, beat the English'.

"With the Scots, it's the same thing. It is also what gives you strength against the English, more than just because of rugby."

Lievremont nevertheless regards England as a huge threat, saying that their players appear to be operating at a "different level".

He added: "This insular country, who always drape themselves in the national flag, their hymns, their chants, their traditions. They are people who one regards as a very proud people.

"But we are also very aware, in terms of planning and preparation, that the English are already in 2011 World Cup mode. We can feel that all of the English players are physically on a different level."

 
Aw man, that's funny shit

[jplpool]

That's ok Mr. Cheese. We don't like the French either. 

[rds.06]

He is right, strange for a Frenchman to be right, but the English hate the French too.

[jplpool]

It's funny how they are welcoming when they need us to win a war for 'em.

[Superstick]

Please don't tell me that we (since Holland was in this war as well) still have to thank you after 65 fucking years.

[jplpool]

ungrateful cunt.....there's many a man who died who never got to see those '65 years'

[Superstick]

Of course, and we respect that, but I don't think it means we cannot say anything bad about the English. And I think we had quite a large number of casualties as well.
But ok, thank you very much for saving me, Jplpool. 

[jplpool]

say what you like about the english ......I couldn't give a fuck.

I'll say what i like about european anti-english errr jealousy?

Afterall.....apart from ze Germans.....Europe will always be always be in our shadow 

[RoboAxl]

Despite them ruining our Grand Slam chances last weekend, I shall be cheering on Les Blues in this one

[Iconic Shawn]

Haha.. good old inner European quarreling.
And here I thought all the negative comments from Europe would always be aimed at the states.

haha.. I guess you English are seen as flag loving, proud people too huh? Not that there's anything wrong with that.

And hell yeah people from anywhere Hitler crapped on will always owe the allied powers thanks for as long as they continue to speak their native language 

~S~

[jplpool]

I'm not European, I'm British. 

[Superstick]

I'm not European, I'm British. 

You're not British. You're Scouse. 

[jplpool]

Scouse English to be exact.

[Superstick]

Yes sir. And don't get me wrong, I find the Liverpudlian accent/dialect the coolest of them all.   
'Where's the chiggggen?' 

[chezequerz]

Haha.. good old inner European quarreling.
And here I thought all the negative comments from Europe would always be aimed at the states.

haha.. I guess you English are seen as flag loving, proud people too huh? Not that there's anything wrong with that.

And hell yeah people from anywhere Hitler crapped on will always owe the allied powers thanks for as long as they continue to speak their native language 

~S~

that's actually a pretty interesting topic.

The UK is hated all over Europe.

* The French have a deeply instilled hatred of us (and vice versa) that dates back about a thousand years i think the biggest reason (and i'm basing this on the fact that holding the fingers you use to fire a bow to a french man is an insult) was the battle Agincourt where a smaller poorly equipped English force of just 6,000 men defeat a French force of 36,000 due to the English longbow (legendary story i imagine you have heard of). This in addition to the Napoleonic days when they really began making life hard for the English instilled the hatred we have for them. Then we beat them back again.

essentially the french and the English are natural enemies.



* The spanish seem to have a hatred for us that could relate to the battle of Trafalgar (smaller British fleet under Admiral Nelson wiped out a Spanish and French joint Armada). I think it may well be because we have a tendency to get drunk in their cities and cause trouble, i'm not saying we do it ONLY in Spain but that's where we're at our worst.


* Scandinavia (denmark, finland, sweden, norway) really have nothing against us and vice versa.


* Italians don't seem to like us too much at all i guess that could relate to WW2 but i'm just guessing on that one.


* Germans don't mind us, they're very welcoming to us i guess it's because we're both drinking cultures and we liberated them from Nazism...but that whole welcoming vibe i've seen change on a penny if you mention "Manchester United" (football team) a friend of mine admitted to being a supporter of theirs to a group of German exchange students from Munich some of them ignored him for the rest of the year the others got way angrier about it than need be and started making threats in German.


* The iron curtain states seem to distrust us but it's not really dislike.


* The dutch could do with showing more respect but the odds aren't high for that happening.


* Scottish, Irish and Welsh hate England for taking their land essentially but considering they really have a pretty fucking sweet deal out of it.


* The Cornish (the county of cornwall in england) the real cornish people hate the english because despite understanding that the UK is a good thing for us we want our own identity to be recognised the same as Scottland or Northern Ireland.









the EU definitely does not appear to approve of our involvement in all the recent wars though that's for sure. That's why we send tens of thousands off to fight them whereas the other countries send hundreds and sometimes less than that.