10ye
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Reged: 07/10/2008
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First this:
"I have every respect for the excellence of Croatian football and shall long remember their glorious display against the bewildered Germans in the French World Cup of 1998."
Followed by this:
"But equally hard to forget are the bitter memories of Croatia in the Second World War when a brutal pro Nazi dictatorship herded Jews and Serbs into concentration camps. The dictator himself fleeing to die peacefully in Spain."
I find it very out of place to connect a modern days football game with a brutal pro Nazi dictatorship of 60 years ago.
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RichieC
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Reged: 17/07/2006
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Maybe, if taken out of context...however, the comment was in a piece about racist chanting, which inevitably leads to questions over a country's general culture (note, I'm not singling out any one country here, but speaking in general terms), which, if a country has a rather blemished record when it comes to such matters then unfortunately, one cannot avoid such comparisons. Football has long been a reflection of society as a whole and alas seems to be used as a mouthpiece for the less savoury elements.
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