I'm sorry but I'm going to have to disagree with you. It does imply that he wants them beaten up otherwise he'll never get his wish of seeing them crying about it. He doesn't say that he wouldn't have pity for them but that he... looks forward to seeing them cry. That's two different things.
Okay, happy to be corrected here so please can you give me an example of how someone can wish to see a person crying after getting beaten up without wanting them to get beaten up?
His exact words: "...I look forward to those same twats crying in Russia because they been arrested unfairly or beaten up..."
I don't want to get too pedantic about it but I read that as saying that he looks forward to someone crying for being arrested unfairly (yeah that's nice too) OR for...
I heard the chant once at the beginning of the match and that was it. It was pretty much wall to wall God Save the Queen and We're On Our Way from thereon in. The song was inevitable but far too much was made of what is not a big deal by the author of that piece. The author had a clear...
What a bile-ridden, hypocritical, self-loathing and spiteful review. On the one hand he calls these fans that travel around the world in the largest numbers following a country that hasn't won anything for 60 years morons yet he finishes his drivel with a wish that they all get beaten up...