Euro 2020: England Fans Sickened By Madeleine McCann Football 'Jokes'

by Verdi 13.07.21 13:08

Euro 2020: England Fans Sickened By Madeleine McCann Football 'Jokes'

Kimberley Bond

Published 13:06, 12 July 2021 BST
| Last updated 14:31, 12 July 2021 BST

Most of us have enjoyed the Euro 2020 tournament in a respectful way, and have been thrilled to cheer on the England team who have done incredibly well in each match they've played.

But for every person who has civilly watched and engaged with the so-called 'beautiful game', there are also vicious and loutish hooligans who have trashed the England team, caused chaos on the streets and written sickening things online during the tournament.

And in the snowballing excitement of the final which took place on Sunday night, many trolls hijacked the 'It's Coming Home' slogan associated with the England team to crack cheap jokes about missing child Madeleine McCann.

One football fan on Twitter shared a skin-crawling gag that someone had posted on Instagram about Maddie, who went missing aged just three in 2007.

Captioning his tweet as "This is f***ed," the image was a poll, showing a picture of Maddie in an Everton shirt next to the England 2020 Euros squad.

The question the poll asked was: "Settling an office debate. Who would you rather came home? Football or Maddie?"

Some fans were reeling at the poll, with one commenting: "F***ing hell."

It was a joke that was cracked repeatedly on Twitter throughout the final, which England lost to Italy when the game went to a penalty shoot-out.

The behaviour of England fans has been heavily criticised throughout the tournament, with multiple high-profile figures slamming the actions of some during and immediately after England were defeated.

Huge crowds of people gathered outside Wembley Arena and in Leicester Square ahead of the match, despite fears of coronavirus cases still rising, with flares set up, causing a nuisance. Meanwhile, a security breach at the stadium saw several fans try and get into the match without a ticket.

Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho and Bukayo Saka have also been victims of horrendous racist abuse, after the three teammates failed to score their penalties in the nail-biting final minutes.

Prince William condemned the outpouring of racism from English football fans, writing on social media he was "sickened" by the display.

https://www.tyla.com/news/sport-euro-2020-england-final-its-coming-home-memes-madeleine-mccann-20210712

by Verdi 13.07.21 13:19

Do you know Ms Kimberley of tyla.com ( $i don\'t know$ ), I wouldn't have known anything about this, had you not published this report - if report it is.

Have you Ms Kimberley of tyla.com been ~~trolling~~ trawling social media looking for a non-event to sensationalize?

Or did a well-wisher send you the detail - from mole hills do mighty mountains grow.

by **Jill Havern** 13.07.21 14:55

Verdi wrote:Huge crowds of people gathered outside Wembley Arena and in Leicester Square ahead of the match, despite fears of coronavirus cases still rising, with flares set up, causing a nuisance.

Imagine being allowed to go unmasked into the Wembley stadium with 50,000 fans, including a Prime Minister and 2 future monarchs, also not wearing masks...then next day putting your mask on to go into Aldi.

roll

by Verdi 13.07.21 16:27

According to reports, as in the media, no one bignono

but no one, was allowed to enter the stadium without proof of vaccination or a negative test certificate taken within the previous 24 hours.

A few days ago I was walking into a local large store, the guy on security with the thermo-gun was investigating a little crawly creepy entering the store, guiding away from being trodden to death with the thermo-gun.

I asked him if he was taking Mr Crawly Creepy's temperature *how we laughed* whence he roped me into helping save the little creature from certain death. We found a store catalogue, ripped out a page and used it to shovel-up Mr Crawly Creepy and transport him to a place of safety.

Meanwhile about 500 customers must have walked in big grin