Četvrtak, 21.06.2007.

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England 2 – Serbia 0 or Derbyshire Killed Fair Play

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‘That Derbyshire is a bastard.’ ‘The English should be ashamed.’ ‘I thought that the English were the one’s that invented fair play?’ These are all comments that I have read and heard recently following Serbia’s defeat at the hands of England during an Under 21 European Cup Football qualifier. Serbs evidently feel cheated by a dubious goal but why are they so angry when it happens all the time? Didn’t Serbia qualify? And top of the group? Was the game that significant? No, not really but I think the answer to all the anger is about something else entirely. It is due to a dying faith in fair play and anguish at its evident deterioration, but it is also significantly, about what Serbs consider to be the erosion of an essential ‘Englishness’. An Englishness whose quaint tea-drinking island nation mentality and notions of fair play have found themselves at odds with the prevailing sporting philosophy of win at all cost

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