Originally Posted by Bosox:
“Sad if Scotland's greatest joy comes from England's failures. Doesn't sound like a strong, confident, independent nation.”
As you would expect from 5 million or so individual people there are a range of attitudes towards England and their football team.
There will be those who enjoy seeing the disappointment of what they see as their main rival and will revel in that.
There's others who don't really care whether England win or lose but get annoyed at the assumption on BBC and ITV that their viewers are all England fans or who will get annoyed at any media pundits being dismissive of the opposition (like Lawro).
There's others who watch a lot of English football and would like to see England do well as they are our near neighbours.
Personally I'm in the camp that will watch England games and take an interest but I'm ambivalent overall.