Analysis of England vs Argentina Football Match

Hey everybody.

England versus Argentina.

As an Irishman, it's a very, very tricky one. Very, very tricky.

I grew up in Dublin in the 1970s and the 1980s. In 1981,

Irish Republican prisoners went on

hunger strike looking for political status against Thatcher's government.

IRA volunteers, great men, brave men like Bobby Sands,

many, many others died.

Incredible men of principle.

committed completely to their ideology,

something completely lacking now in Irish and European politics

and morality it seems to me.

I lived through that,

a ten year old boy I watched it happen, saw the black flags on the street,

the massive mobilization of

Irish people in support of the hunger strikers,

the burning of the British Embassy in Dublin city centre, momentous times

in Dublin as a young kid to watch.

A year later the Argentinians seized back

the Las Malvinas Islands or the Falklands as the British called it.

The British sent their armada down, Margaret Thatcher stood firm.

She did well for the British,

for the English, she did what no British leader now like Starmer and the

cretinous bunch of gormless gobshites

in charge of the UK would do now,

which is stand up for British interests, British people.

She was despised in Ireland,

she was despised in the pits and the mines in England.

And you know, I suppose looking back 45

years hence to look at what this was all about,

I suppose now I look at the English football team and what does it represent.

It doesn't really represent the British establishment.

football always did, working class communities.

And it's those working class communities that the British establishment,

the likes of Churchill and his elitist friends, the Etonians, the David Camerons,

the fake socialist groupings that make up Labour,

certainly New Labour and its progeny, the Labour Party of today,

they don't represent working class communities

anymore. They don't represent anything except their own personal interests.

I see people like Harry Kane and Bellingham,

these are decent people it seems to me.

And then I look at Argentina and it's vile government as far as I can see.

It's disdain for its own

people and it's corruption, grossly corrupt, the Argentinian Football Association.

So I'm gonna tell you,

I'm gonna be tonight supporting

nobody but I won't be sorry if the

English beat them because I don't think the English are as corrupt.

The English Football Association certainly isn't as corrupt as the Argentinians.

I've no particular love or respect for either government in either

country whatsoever.

The English are the most aggressive protagonists in the war in Ukraine.

The vile Boris Johnson responsible for the deaths

of over a million people probably now.

A disgusting profiteering class that he represents.

but the football team represents ordinary English

people and ordinary English people I have the greatest respect for.

They're good people, they're decent people just like ordinary Irish

working class people and it's the ordinary Irish and English working classes,

the Scottish working classes, the Welsh working classes that the

elites were so determined to keep separated, to draw them into their armies,

their different regiments, to pit them against each other in an elitist circus

where the poor would go and fight these wars of profit.

Korea, Vietnam

and look at the Gulf War, look at Afghanistan. We've seen it all before and now

they're trying to make the working classes fight another war against Russia which

would be devastating.

So I will be hoping that ordinary English people get a win tonight.

The ordinary English, the decent English people who was very good to

the Irish in many ways.

Many Irish made their lives, made their way in England,

members of my own family and were treated with great respect.

My grandfather was a huge fan of the English.

He was given everything he had in England and many Irish did too,

don't be told otherwise.

Regardless of the crimes and the misdemeanors of their political masters,

the English people are no different to the Irish people. The Scots, the Welsh,

there's far less separatists than.

joins us together in reality now.

I suppose it's an evolution of thinking.

Thank God the troubles of the north are over.

One day there'll be a united Ireland by consensus, please God,

a peaceful unity where,

when Ireland can actually decide to look after the people of the island,

ahead of the people of every other country on earth.

Maybe that can happen too. So tonight, that's my position.

I and please God it'll be a great game, a cracker of a game.

So let's go. Let's go lads. Talk to you soon.