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Originally Posted by S.J.B
. Let us hope the English will give their team the welcome home that other teams who got this far usually gets.
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Thank gawd it's all over! well it is now!
Why on earth would you get a welcome home for coming fourth and all this tosh about heroics and being heroes, yer avin a laff ain't yer! away from home for a month, best food, good hotels, certainly well paid, have WAGS in attendance, sometimes parents, best physio and docs in attendance, and even given rubber ducks to play with.
The word 'hero' has been defaced too much by all and sundry. Real heroes are people like my deceased friend Lou who was still only nineteen and a half after spending three and a half years in a Japanese P O W Camp having lied about his age to join the MN at the outbreak of war, spent months on a German ship after being captured and transferred to a Japanese ship, but still had a sense of humour and didn't hate anyone, even though he had to wait for over three months after the war finished before being shipped home DBS, because they couldn't find any paperwork, he was only 16 when captured, doubt he had a lot of paperwork.