Here we are its Euro 2000, and lo the world focuses again upon the notorious English football hooligans. Little thought is given to the fact that violence is more received than dealt by the English, nor that the media creates, inflates and often initiates the violence. 
Whilst the English may not be the cause of all the affrays in foreign parts, I would suggest that whatever their part they should be forgiven, understood nay blessed. Uniquely among nations the English have lost their culture, their society, their freedom. What small numbers of real English men left not afraid to pull on an England shirt should have carte blanche to be and do anything they so desire. 
The English football supporter is the last vestige of an English identity, every other facet of being an Englishman has been stripped away by the dominant liberal culture which has deemed Englishness as a vile oppressive thing to be denied. Since the development of enforced multiculturalism in the 1950s, England has ceased to be a thing apart. Multiculturalism does not create a cohesive people, it does not promote any culture, it has no identity it is but an abstract idea empowered by bad law.  Culture is the wellspring of any people, without it there is only decay. Denied their language, their idioms, their own people to fall back upon the English have become foreigners in their own land. Attacked and derided by the media, bound by laws prohibiting thought, and action. They have become subject to no authority but the dominant lies: speak anything except what you feel; produce nothing but money; do nothing that promotes disharmony; say the truth is relative; believe we are all the same. 
To go abroad as an Englishman among other English men for a football match is probably the only opportunity for these men to express their culture, their spirit, to feel the strength of a united people, a united bond. The English for centuries the force for conquest, adventure, progress, justice and civilisation have been so stripped of all their potential and very nature that support of eleven men is all that is allowed them. It may well be a rag tag army of the dispossessed, but it is us, it is all that is left. If not for that only they should be cherished, nurtured and preserved. They represent the last of England, truly the last Englishmen the world will ever not want to know. 

 East Finchley © 2000
 
 
 

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