There are Irish pubs in Britain too. The more authentic ones are run by actual Irish people. The important bit, I think, is that they’re almost identical to British pubs.
To my mind, it’s more likely that the English fans went looking for something familiar, saw the Irish pub and thought that’d be a great place to have a beer. Then they found it full of Spanish fans.
Now at that point you could argue that “Ireland is our house not yours” is a colonial mindset, and yes you could trace it all back to that, but the apes who went apeshit aren’t smart enough to join all those dots.
They were just pissed off that a rival group of fans had beat them to it.
There are Irish pubs in Britain too. The more authentic ones are run by actual Irish people. The important bit, I think, is that they’re almost identical to British pubs.
To my mind, it’s more likely that the English fans went looking for something familiar, saw the Irish pub and thought that’d be a great place to have a beer. Then they found it full of Spanish fans.
Now at that point you could argue that “Ireland is our house not yours” is a colonial mindset, and yes you could trace it all back to that, but the apes who went apeshit aren’t smart enough to join all those dots.
They were just pissed off that a rival group of fans had beat them to it.