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Man Utd's Matic will not wear a poppy either, the Serbian midfielder says it reminds him of his village being bombed ( by British planes?) during the Kosovo conflict. Matic was only 12 at the time, I have some sympathy.
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But he'll earn a fortune in our country and evade tax. Pillock! We we there to save people being masacred.
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Re: Matic will not wear poppy
I couldn't care less it's his business
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Re: Matic will not wear poppy
He's wore one before ,but on reflection he's decided not to wear one now..
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That worked out well.basil6345789 wrote:But he'll earn a fortune in our country and evade tax. Pillock! We we there to save people being masacred.
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Except we were a bit late getting there.basil6345789 wrote:But he'll earn a fortune in our country and evade tax. Pillock! We we there to save people being masacred.
Although if one is looking at WW1 his native Serbia was I think against the Austro-Hungarian Empire and lost a large slice of its male population in the War.
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There's a very strong anti-UK, anti-US, anti-NATO, anti-EU sentiment in Serbia. I'm not surprised.
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Better late than never.mdd2 wrote:Except we were a bit late getting there.
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Not in the opinion of the Serbs.Lord Rothbury wrote:Better late than never.
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Re: Matic will not wear poppy
He’s just another Ian Huntley.
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We're not the good guys in war all the time.
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Arch Duke Ferdinand was also Serbian, look at what he caused. ☺
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Just because you live and work here doesn't mean you have to auto matic ally wear a poppy..
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Ferdinand was Austrian.Cirrus_Minor wrote:Arch Duke Ferdinand was also Serbian, look at what he caused. ☺
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He played for England, though...
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Lot of kids called Tony Blair / Tonibler in Kosovo, though....thatdberight wrote:There's a very strong anti-UK, anti-US, anti-NATO, anti-EU sentiment in Serbia. I'm not surprised.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonibler
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If it wasn't for Iraq, Blair would be remembered fondly in this country as a great Prime Minister largely for his work during the Kosovo conflict. He ****** his legacy completely.ZizkovClaret wrote:Lot of kids called Tony Blair / Tonibler in Kosovo, though....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonibler
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Your right, I'm thinking of the chap that shot him.AndrewJB wrote:Ferdinand was Austrian.
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Tuition fees were a bit of a hump in the road too.... but ayeImploding Turtle wrote:If it wasn't for Iraq, Blair would be remembered fondly in this country as a great Prime Minister largely for his work during the Kosovo conflict. He ****** his legacy completely.
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At Terezin, most famous for being a concentration camp in WW2, there is a plaque for the assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand commemorating the "Great Serbian fighting Spirit"..... That tells you all you need to know about SerbsCirrus_Minor wrote:Your right, I'm thinking of the chap that shot him.
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True, but that's not career defining in the way that Kosovo would have been, and that Iraq was.ZizkovClaret wrote:Tuition fees were a bit of a hump in the road too.... but aye
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I personally like it when our traditions and deepest felt cultural sensitivities are mocked and smeared.
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Snowflake.ClaretMoffitt wrote:I personally like it when our traditions and deepest felt cultural sensitivities are sh!t on.
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why? I enjoy it.Imploding Turtle wrote:Snowflake.
You forget, I want a chaotic world.
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I wholeheartedly agree.Vegas Claret wrote:I couldn't care less it's his business
I always buy and wear a poppy, but I wouldn't dream of having a go at anyone who doesn't. After all, they died so that we and future generations can be free - and free choice is part of this.
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If people HAVE to wear a poppy then surely that devalues the whole thing anyway?
There are still major parts of serbia that havent been repaired from the bombings which killed and injured way too many people back in the 90s. Ultimately we were in cahoots with americans who ordered them. Whether America, Britain or Milosevic is to blame for that depends on your view interpretation. That said all Serbs I have met have loved Brits although admittedly they dont seem to like Americans.
On the other hand, kosovo who they still dont get on with (understatement) and still occupies the land serbs to be their own (like a european palestine) love americans and british believe it or not.
To be honest at the end of the day the poppy should be optional. And as a political thing shouldnt even be on football shirts imo. Coming from someone who is very proud of the british army. Many friends and plenty of family have all served.
Some pictures below from my last visit to serbia and kosovo. 20 years after the troubles. Easy to guess which is which and easy to guess why on reflection matic wouldnt want to wear one.
There are still major parts of serbia that havent been repaired from the bombings which killed and injured way too many people back in the 90s. Ultimately we were in cahoots with americans who ordered them. Whether America, Britain or Milosevic is to blame for that depends on your view interpretation. That said all Serbs I have met have loved Brits although admittedly they dont seem to like Americans.
On the other hand, kosovo who they still dont get on with (understatement) and still occupies the land serbs to be their own (like a european palestine) love americans and british believe it or not.
To be honest at the end of the day the poppy should be optional. And as a political thing shouldnt even be on football shirts imo. Coming from someone who is very proud of the british army. Many friends and plenty of family have all served.
Some pictures below from my last visit to serbia and kosovo. 20 years after the troubles. Easy to guess which is which and easy to guess why on reflection matic wouldnt want to wear one.
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Also an excellent (probably the wrong word) documentary about the whole thing is called the death of yugoslavia. Very interesting and eye opening. Also a bit brutal though.
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Serbia started the 'cleansing' Matic should be reminded of that fact.
I really don't care if he wears a poppy.
I really don't care if he wears a poppy.
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Another disrespectful tw@t!
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Who and why ?Steve1956 wrote:Another disrespectful tw@t!
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That’d be Gavrilo Princip.Cirrus_Minor wrote:Your right, I'm thinking of the chap that shot him.
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Yugoslavia - unlike Paraguay - actually wasn't a 'real' country, just a hodge-podge of adjacent states/territories/regions that'd been fighting each other along ethnic & religious lines for better than a thousand years, cobbled together by the Allies at the end of WW1; the area only ever achieved any sort of stability during the period when Marshal Tito, backed by the Soviet Union was running things - now he was a hard man! The population were still butchering each other of course, but Tito ensured that they were doing it a little more discretely. Once Tito died and the Soviet Union collapsed, all that historic enmity resurfaced and with a few individuals fanning the flames because there was some profit to me made in so doing, it quickly went to rat-**** once again.
Of course this is purely a personal opinion: there's also a school of thought that no doubt reckons it was all Joe Hart's fault and that Arkan's Tigers were in actuality a group of primary school kids from Shrewsbury.
Of course this is purely a personal opinion: there's also a school of thought that no doubt reckons it was all Joe Hart's fault and that Arkan's Tigers were in actuality a group of primary school kids from Shrewsbury.
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Lol. "Yugoslavia". Aye, alright. As if i'd believe that one.
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You’re right, the people trying to take away Matic’s right to freedom of choice are being disrespectful to the millions of British’s servicemen and women who have died to keep us free.Steve1956 wrote:Another disrespectful tw@t!
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No one actually knows why World War One started
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deanothedino wrote:You’re right, the people trying to take away Matic’s right to freedom of choice are being disrespectful to the millions of British’s servicemen and women who have died to keep us free.
I think "millions" might be over doing it, but i get your point.
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Okay pedant, greater than 1, less than 2, million dead servicemen and women.Imploding Turtle wrote:I think "millions" might be over doing it, but i get your point.
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Can't blame the lad not to wear .
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Exactly. More respect for a man of principle who sticks by it.Tribesmen wrote:Can't blame the lad not to wear .
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Hmmm I'm not sure if you're being deliberately ironic here CFC. I'm ex services and completely respect anyone's decision to not wear a poppy, especially if they have a good reason. This attempt by Matic looks a bit half pathetic though. Poppies reminds him of bombing? How, we were firing Tomahawks at Serbia not an occasional garden weed. The American's don't use the Poppy symbol, it's predominately a Commonwealth symbol, so it must be the UK he's ****** off with. His "principles" run so deep he'll quite happily move to the country that bombed him, take the cash and then slag us off in this mealy mouthed way.cricketfieldclarets wrote:Exactly. More respect for a man of principle who sticks by it.
Again, with all of this "Poppy Objectors" they fail to understand that the Poppies are there as an act of Remembrance, of all sides in a conflict. I regularly laid wreaths with the local German Officials at War Memorials in Germany. By coming out with statements like this one it only serves to politicise the poppy, create division and generally cause deterioration between former conflicting parties. He needs to wear his poppy, and remember the people who died in conflict, not set off trying to cause issues where none should exist.
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No. and i understand exactly where youre coming from. But personally I would rather someone wear and respect it who wants to, than wear it because they are told they have to and couldnt give two shits.claret wizard wrote:Hmmm I'm not sure if you're being deliberately ironic here CFC. I'm ex services and completely respect anyone's decision to not wear a poppy, especially if they have a good reason. This attempt by Matic looks a bit half pathetic though. Poppies reminds him of bombing? How, we were firing Tomahawks at Serbia not an occasional garden weed. The American's don't use the Poppy symbol, it's predominately a Commonwealth symbol, so it must be the UK he's ****** off with. His "principles" run so deep he'll quite happily move to the country that bombed him, take the cash and then slag us off in this mealy mouthed way.
Again, with all of this "Poppy Objectors" they fail to understand that the Poppies are there as an act of Remembrance, of all sides in a conflict. I regularly laid wreaths with the local German Officials at War Memorials in Germany. By coming out with statements like this one it only serves to politicise the poppy, create division and generally cause deterioration between former conflicting parties. He needs to wear his poppy, and remember the people who died in conflict, not set off trying to cause issues where none should exist.
I understand quite a lot about all of the balkans wars. But its easy to see why Matic would think we and america are one and the same.
As for him living and working here. Thats completely different to supporting our or any military. There are plenty of people in this country who are against war.
If the poppy was just about the ww's and or if there was no war since then, im sure Matic, McClean and plenty of others would have no problem.
2 things are for sure. With immigration, especially from people from places like the middle east its going to be moee common. The other is that football and politics (and religion) shouldnt mix. Or at least not be forced to the extent that this is.
There are currently several english players playing in germany. Should they be forced to support and remember dead nazi soldiers?
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No they shouldn't, but I'd expect they would say I don't want to remember your War Dead because they were "Insert reasons here, holocaust, Nazi, war crimes etc etc". However, as I mentioned joint Remembrance services will take place all over Germany and during my time serving there the fact that probably half the names on the memorials were Nazi's wasn't made an issue of. Remembrance is about the useless loss of life that takes place in wars, it's a time to forget the causes that were behind it all. Seems Poppy Objectors can't seem to understand that the Remembrance act doesn't have "sides".cricketfieldclarets wrote:
There are currently several english players playing in germany. Should they be forced to support and remember dead nazi soldiers?
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claret wizard wrote:No they shouldn't, but I'd expect they would say I don't want to remember your War Dead because they were "Insert reasons here, holocaust, Nazi, war crimes etc etc". However, as I mentioned joint Remembrance services will take place all over Germany and during my time serving there the fact that probably half the names on the memorials were Nazi's wasn't made an issue of. Remembrance is about the useless loss of life that takes place in wars, it's a time to forget the causes that were behind it all. Seems Poppy Objectors can't seem to understand that the Remembrance act doesn't have "sides".
As a 'poppy objector' I do understand that the act doesn't have sides. However, it isn't us that are politicising it. It's us that have been turned off by the politicisation of it by the 'poppy fascists'. I get your point but I won't be wearing one. I've still made a donation.
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Now HE was the one to blame.Cirrus_Minor wrote:Your right, I'm thinking of the chap that shot him.
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Why, are you a remembrance bully? I haven't worn one in years.Steve1956 wrote:Another disrespectful tw@t!
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Do you know I was thinking exactly the same thing yesterday. I know the catalyst was the shooting of Archduke Ferdinand but other than that what was it all about? Other than being one of the finest examples of a human cull the world has ever seen why the hell were they even fighting.Garnerssoap wrote:No one actually knows why World War One started
And while we are on the subject why were none of our leaders ever broght to justice for war crimes? Our lads were conscripted or shamed into taking part, told to go 'over the top' to walk into enemy machine gun fire and shot by their own side if they didn't. In fact it is hard to even say they were heroes because they actually didn't have any choice, they were bloody slaughtered. Add to that the disgusting conditions they lived in in the trenches, the poor food, the poor training and the poor equipment. These men were put to the proverbial sword and for what? Young lives utterly wasted because a few politicians somewhere decided they disagreed with another bunch of politicains. This is how war works, a tiny bunch of people decide that we are at war then tell its people they have to go and kill or be killed and then they demand respect.
The one thing that makes me think is are they actually culls? A stupid idea I know but think about it. If millions of people hadn't died in the two world wars and they had all lived to produce children whose children would have produced more children etc. we may now be living in a major crisis of over-population, even worse, far worse than we have now. The estimates (because that's all it can ever be) are that around 100 million people died in the two wars, now if most of them had lived to produce even just one child (or one more if they already had kids) and those kids had all had the proverbial 2.4 children and there kids in turn likewise it doesn't take much to imagine another half billion more people alive today than there are now, at least. Now that is a scary and sobering thought. Makes you wonder if there is more to war than meets the eye.
Please note this is not some strange conspiracy theory but just a kind of mind excercise I torture myself with occasionally.
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Can't believe these bleeding immigrants are disrespecting us. After all, the flag waving, poppy loving, populace of this country has done nothing but be very welcoming to anyone and everyone from Europe over the last few years.
Maybe if these immigrants had been made to feel unwelcome and unloved you could understand why they'd be less than keen to engage with 'great British traditions'........
Oh hang on......
Maybe if these immigrants had been made to feel unwelcome and unloved you could understand why they'd be less than keen to engage with 'great British traditions'........
Oh hang on......
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>Maybe if these immigrants had been made to feel unwelcome and unloved
I'm sure his million quid a month salary goes some way to offset his feelings of rejection?
I'm sure his million quid a month salary goes some way to offset his feelings of rejection?
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It'll certainly be the reason he puts up with it. But as others have said, he's worn a poopy in the past, so something has obviously changed his feelings.Sproggy wrote:>Maybe if these immigrants had been made to feel unwelcome and unloved
I'm sure his million quid a month salary goes some way to offset his feelings of rejection?
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martin_p wrote:It'll certainly be the reason he puts up with it. But as others have said, he's worn a poopy in the past, so something has obviously changed his feelings.
*childish giggling*
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