Brentwood Town vs Dulwich Hamlet - Tuesday 12th April

[Cyclodunc]

That staring woman looks fucking terrifying.

she's coming through your window, she's coming through your door

 

[Cyclodunc]

Was a crap game to photograph. Rubbish floodlights, rubbish pitch, hardly any chances, not even many half chances, and the ball mostly bobbling around in the middle of the pitch.

 

[Jamie Wyatt]

A couple of their fans seemed inordinately hot headed but I didn't hear any of their dodgy comments apart from a few angry random outbursts.

Mind you, I'd be pretty angry if our ground was plastered in England flags and a West Ham one.

West Ham I understand but what's wrong with England flags?

 

[darryl]

Had the locals never seen a camera before?

 

[B.I.G]

West Ham I understand but what's wrong with England flags?

Generally anyone displaying an England flag, in their garden, in their window, is a massive racist.

Also why would the welsh be loving England flags anyway.

 

[Jamie Wyatt]

Generally anyone displaying an England flag, in their garden, in their window, is a massive racist.

Also why would the welsh be loving England flags anyway.

But this is in an football ground in England... Not in someone's garden etc...

 

[editor]

West Ham I understand but what's wrong with England flags?

I prefer witty, unusual, original, fun flags which suggests that the fans have a sense of humour and that's it's an inclusive kind of place and not all about IINNNGERRRLAND.

“To a sizeable proportion of the population, flaunting the flag sometimes seems territorial and exclusive, perhaps even intimidating,” wrote Owen Jones in this newspaper at the weekend. That sizeable proportion was quantified in a survey a couple of years ago when the thinktank British Future found that 24% of English people think the St George’s flag is a racist symbol. The report, This Sceptred Isle, showed that only 61% of the English said they associated the St George’s cross with pride and patriotism, compared with 84% of Scots and 86% of Welsh when asked about, respectively, the St Andrew’s cross and the Red Dragon....

With the St George’s cross appropriated by the English Defence League in a similarly exclusive, racist and alienating way to the manner in which National Front bigots deployed the union flag in the 1970s, it risks becoming for white English people only, expressing their rejection of multi-ethnic society.

Patriot games: how toxic is the England flag today?

 

[B.I.G]

But this is in an football ground in England... Not in someone's garden etc...

True. Put it down to Wales then.

 

[Jamie Wyatt]

I prefer witty, unusual, original, fun flags which suggests that the fans have a sense of humour and that's it's an inclusive kind of place and not all about IINNNGERRRLAND.

Fair enough, but still no reason England flags shouldn't be on display...

Sad that people see it like that, I don't! I have a 12 x 6 one that has South London through the middle that is meant only to display where I and the Club I support are from...

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with an England flag and I wouldn't think anyone with one was a Massive Racist or anything like that. I certainly wouldn't bat an eye at someone putting up a 'South London' one at Dulwich.

If I got to a ground and there were loads of them all over the place and not much else though...

 

[Thimble Queen]

I feel a bit cautious when I see a St Georges Cross flag. And last night I wondered if I was going to be made to feel unwelcome. It was the monkey noises and the comments that were a problem last night. They don't have to go hand in hand with the flag but ime they do seem to.

 

[Matboy_Slim]

I want a "tits, fanny & Dulwich" St Georges Cross flag... can we make it happen in time for the play off final?

 

[GregDHFC]

Fair enough, but still no reason England flags shouldn't be on display...

Sad that people see it like that, I don't! I have a 12 x 6 one that has South London through the middle that is meant only to display where I and the Club I support are from...

I guess I just don't get the point of displaying England flags in a football match between two English teams. What is it saying? International games, fine, but Isthmian Premier...I don't understand the message.

 

[DonkeyAssessor]

love the window shot!

Was that at the ground or the Dog training centre ?

 

[DonkeyAssessor]

A couple of their fans seemed inordinately hot headed but I didn't hear any of their dodgy comments apart from a few angry random outbursts.

Mind you, I'd be pretty angry if our ground was plastered in England flags and a West Ham one.

Thought at the time, that the flag with "Rising Sun" emblazoned on it, ought to have had the Japanese flag on it

 

[EDC]

Thought at the time, that the flag with "Rising Sun" emblazoned on it, ought to have had the Japanese flag on it

I went in the Rising Sun before the match. A very nice pub.

 

[editor]

I went in the Rising Sun before the match. A very nice pub.

I went after and had a nice chat with the landlord. There was a darts game going on and they were taking it very seriously. Good pub!

 

[editor]

Was that at the ground or the Dog training centre ?

I don't quite get your point here.

 

[Jamie Wyatt]

I guess I just don't get the point of displaying England flags in a football match between two English teams. What is it saying? International games, fine, but Isthmian Premier...I don't understand the message.

As I have said already, mine says South London across it, just showing what part of England I/we are from and as we play many games outside South London, I don't see a problem!

I will add I bought mine whilst following England abroad and have never bothered bringing it to a DHFC game as I can't be bothered to go searching the loft for it...

Sometimes sadly I think people read into theses things to much.

 

[DonkeyAssessor]

I don't quite get your point here.

Just asking. Didn't notice (or can remember there being ) any windows at the ground itself.... other than the bar area .

 

[DonkeyAssessor]

I went after and had a nice chat with the landlord. There was a darts game going on and they were taking it very seriously. Good pub!

Was it his flag?

 

[toby kempton]

Electric cabales behind the goal with no light should be fined.
Any photos editor?

 

[editor]

Electric cabales behind the goal with no light should be fined.
Any photos editor?

You mean this?

 

[editor]

Sometimes sadly I think people read into theses things to much.

Did you read the link I posted up? There's a good reason why some people feel uncomfortable in places festooned with England flags,

 

[DonkeyAssessor]

You mean this?

Remember that electric fence they had at Stamford Bridge ?

That gave a few people a jolt !

 

[DonkeyAssessor]

Good photos editor.

 

[Jamie Wyatt]

Did you read the link I posted up? There's a good reason why some people feel uncomfortable in places festooned with England flags,

Yes I did, which is why I said "sometimes" people read into these things to much!

I also think that it should be displayed in the right way more often so that people don't feel that way towards it!

 

[editor]

Yes I did, which is why I said "sometimes" people read into these things to much!

I also think that it should be displayed in the right way more often so that people don't feel that way towards it!

If Hamlet's ground had been covered in England flags the first time I visited - like Brentwood's - I wouldn't have come back.

 

[DonkeyAssessor]

If Hamlet's ground had been covered in England flags the first time I visited - like Brentwood's - I wouldn't have come back.

But you were happy enough in the Rising Sun, with their name on one of the England flags ?

 

[Scutta]

You mean this?

dont worry guys i have some spray paint