  Causing my heart to swell to Queen Mum gawd-blessing size is urlLink this news of the hate campaign waged against the Swiss referee from England's last Euro 2004 game. And the main rabble-rousers? Guessed it in one - the fucking Sun. The day after the game they were openly calling him a cheat, then printed his e-mail address and encouraged readers to "tell him what you think". After that - having seemingly decided that simply abusing him wasn't enough - they printed articles about his marriage, home and workplace.
The next step was to slap a huge England flag outside his home. Ha! Ha! Ha! Twats. And the upshot - never saw this coming! - is that he's been receiving death threats and hate mail, and has had to go under police protection. Even more heart-warmingly, a Swiss girl got the shit kicked out of her by three English thugs for the crime of wearing her country's football shirt. And I guarantee you those three also told Meier "what they think" in their finest scumbag English. It's always the bloody same - they stoke the fires with crap jokes, snide comments and outright abuse, then tut-tut-tut when it turns into something from Lord of the Flies and lager-fuelled morons unite under the Sun's xenophobic banner and someone gets hurt.
You know that if they even bother to report the story of three of Our Boys giving one Swiss girl a shoeing - and I'm pretty sure they'll ignore it - they'll be back into Simpleton Moralising mode before you can say "Rebekah Wade is a chump". Oh, and Asda? In the same article it mentions that they've jumped on the We-Can-Be-Boorish-Football-Muppets-Too bandwagon, and have offered all Swiss nationals free eye tests. I prefer Tescos anyway. 
