Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Reports of racism by German U21s alert UEFA

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=384540&cc=5901

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Interestingly the England players say they were called 'Monkeys'. In German the general 'friendly' insult for an Englishman is 'Inselaffe', which means 'Island Monkey'. It's used irrespective of race, sex, etc. This is their version of 'Kraut' [as in... "unfortunately my mad girlfriend is a Kraut", or "where's my dinner, Kraut"].

Could this explain things? I mean, there's not even a hint of racism in the past 100 yrs of German history.

TS.

The Editor said...

How many times a week do you say, "where's my dinner, Kraut?" Five? Six?

I'm sorry your mad girlfriend is a Kraut...