Should we restore the death penalty for English citizens who support another country's team?
594648
We all have to believe!!\nEngland have the best supporters i n the world!!\nNon believers have 2 be dealt with severely but the death penalty seems hasty.... torture them first then the death penalty!!
710883
It is a travesty that DC Stephen Oake was not posthumously awarded the George Cross; he died protecting not only his colleagues but also those members of the public who might have been harmed had his murderer escaped. As a citizen of Manchester, I am ashamed of the mean-mindedness of the "committee" which made this decision and, by extension, by the politicians who endorsed it.
1024466
I think that the vast majority of Britons have forgiven Argentina (and Argentinians) many years ago. We recognise that Argentinians suffered far more from the junta than we did. We love Pumas rugby team. We envy the polo ponies. We chuckle at the welsh tea rooms.\n\nA few fools pretend that there is bad feeling. Those same fools think that all Germans are Nazis. Such idiocy is a disgrace to all civilized people. \n\nOn the other hand (!) we can never forgive Maradona :-)
1129184
No it's not true. It's English lineage that counts and the players have to prove that they have at least one English Grandparent - the same is true for all national sides.
777039
The fault lies squarely at the door of the media.\nThe xenophobia they display is sickening.\nJohnny Foreigner - how dare he beat England!\nThe stupid English fans (and most of them are of under-average intelligence) believe this rubbish and get hurt when they don't win.\nBeing unable to express themselves in any other way, they turn to hatred of other countries.\nIt is not a majority of fans, it is most of them.\nwhen England played Trinidad and Tobago in the World Cup, most of them were facing in the opposite direction from the pitch to shout racist abuse at the T&T fans.\nOnly when England finally scored (through a foul by Crouch) did they take an interest in the game.\nOther country's fans go to competitions in a party mood.\nEngland prepare for a war.\nEngland fans are predominantly scum and when the team exits competitions, every other country is relieved.\nThe 'world beating' players of England are then pilloried in the press and the fans look for scapegoats, usually finding a foreigner whose fault it was, courtesy of The Sun.\nThis year the England fans were labelled 'the best fans in the World'.\nBy whom?\nThe English!\nBut as soon as the process ends, it begins anew.\nThe idiots here saying England will win the World Cup in four years are already fooled into a false premise - that which states England have a divine right to win everything.\nThere is nothing wrong with getting behind your team and looking to games with hope.\nA seething hatred for the opposition is something else.\nEngland generally scrape through qualifying stages of World Cups and the fans learn nothing from this.\nThey still think they are world-beaters because The Sun told them so.\nIt would be amusing if it wasn't so pathetic.\nIt was also predictable that you would be accused of being Scottish.\nI might be and I can say for Scotland's size, we do well for a country our size.\nThere have been enough competitions in my lifetime Scotland has qualified for when England stayed at home but the people on here know nothing beyond yesterday's Sun.\nBut that's them looking for a foreigner to blame again.\nBut you know, it's all going to repeat itself and the idiot fans will be here in four years blaming some Argentinian/German/Swede or whoever and the likes of us can come here and point out the errors of their ways.\nIt is rather good sport, if a little easy, to catch little englanders on a baited hook.
914291
if england is so bad,,,,why do so many ilegal imorgrants pay to come here,,,we dont want them here
625575
Well as you know the premier league is highly competitive and it requires every player to give it all they have. It is unfortunate the situation England is. All I can say is the players are not only dedicated to their country, they are also dedicated to the team(s) they play for.
33838
No, because the illeagal act they commited in foreign country may not be a crime in their homeland. I might agree to allowing them to serve their sentence in their homeland.
753270
I currently live in the United Kingdom, but I am American. I started enjoying football when I saw Brazil will the penalty shootout at the 1994 World Cup. I currently support England because I kind of have to since my wife is British, hehehe. Club wise I support West Bromwich Albion, again because of my wife, and personally I also am rooting for Aston Villa in the EPL. Don't really have a favourite player. I've watched 1994, 1998, 2002, and 2006 World Cups. 1994 was my favourite, followed by 2002.
467416
I think that there have to be certain punitive measures in place. I definitely dont like the idea o any one shaking the hands on one side and stabbing your back on another side. Nothing against the players, but if some proof exists that Pakistan sponsors terrorism, then it would be justified.
827902
yes......... it has little to do with us, believe it or not...\n\nhe was found guilty in an Iraqi court by Iraqi people and the law in Iraq is the death penalty for these sort of crimes.... its was his country, his rules... if he was tried in the UK, there is no way he could have had the death penalty
1149266
Well as a descendant of a Scot, I now some of the history. Now, granted that was a long time ago. Just like native Mexicans shouldn't really be mad at Spain and Blacks against whites for the slave thing. I mean, it isn't happening now in other words. You CAN be mad at the people who did it, but they're dead now. I'm not to happy with Mary Queen of Scots for kicking out my clan many years ago. We were reinstated in the counsel in the early 1900s so it's over now.\nIn England, just about everyone who supports a team has hooligans for that team. It's not just the Scots.
915529
How quick are people here to jump blindly to all kinds of conclusions about this.  Firstly, most people are forgetting that your question as us if WE were sentenced to death....perhaps some people here should try to get their head round that bit of the concept first before assuming that anyone should be sentenced to death.  \n\nThere have been a lot of miscarriages of justice - in the UK think of people who have been released years after being sentenced because they were wrongly imprisoned in the first place. You can't bring people back from the dead so there's a moral and ethical question people ought to ask themselves about whether the death penalty - is something that is right in the first place.  Thankfully in the UK we abolished it but there are plenty of other countries that still exercise this sentencing option.  \n\nWhen is it right to sentence someone to death, and when is it not?\n\nOf course this question has probably been prompted by the news that Saddam Hussein has been sentenced to death for crimes against humanity.  Even in the case of such a tyrant he did not act alone - he had people around him who supported him in his actions.  Yes some will have done it out of fear, but for everyone of those there will have been someone who did it with the same intent as Saddam.  Whilst I abhor his actions is it right that he carries this alone?\n\nOf course, in an instance like this people's gut reactions will think I'm a bleeding heart liberal.  But now imagine you're in a train carriage with two other people.  One gets up and brutally stabbing the other before jumping off the still moving train.  You're found bent over the body with blood on your hands.  The CCTV wasn't working and all the evidence points at you.  Do you still believe in the death penalty?\n\nThere've been cases where people have been sentenced to death despite having the mental age of a child and not knowing the difference between right and wrong - they're particularly tragic.  And then there are the options themselves as to the way you die.  Lethal injection etc.  They say that some methods are quicker than others.  The quickest, I understand, is meant to take almost immediate effect and yet in some US States where they offer this the doctor still does not declare the patient dead for 30 minutes, suggesting that it is not as quick as they claim. If it has to be then surely it should be by the quickest method possible.  As if someone is to die a slow death then are we not committing an act of torture leading to death?  Don't we become as bad as the person who's committed the crime?
716472
That's a very interesting question -and it lies totally in the hands of the politicians, so therefore it is extremely unlikely to be brought back. \nHowever, if there were an actual vote on this issue, the country would almost certainly be in favour of the death penalty coming back!\nIronic, but true...
1151083
i think to make murder punishable by murder is a joke, what is the difference between the criminal and the law if both are commiting murder. also if i were facing life in prison i would much prefer the death penalty and im sure many people on death row see it that way, fortunatly in my country we abolished the death penalty long ago and now killers have to live with their nightmares for the rest of their lives rather than getting an easy way out. we are supposed to be promoting modern liberal western values to the rest of the world but it is not very good when the wests leading nation itself cannot follow these ideals
1064882
I support England mate.
1099986
To Chef now yo.\nYOU are talking through your hole. Being Irish and having watched the dirty scum bag English hooligans come over to my Country and smash our stadium up  and put countless people in hospital after England went - 1-0 down in 1994, i got to see first hand what the media repeatedly get the blame for  in England. How can you even try to defend that kind of behaviour. You can't.Yes .i agree the loss of the Leeds fan in turkey was very sad, but does it give You the right to intimidate and vandalise wherever you go. Travel abroad with any other nation and watch everyone take step back when all the English thugs arrive. You can't justify football hooliganism and as a Brit you  should look a bit closer to home before criticising other nations. Blame everybody but yourself. Some of my closest friends and family are English and agree with me entirely