GDT: Group A - May 20 - France vs Great Britain

[unknownbrother]

There had a to be some sort of tv or streaming service deal in place as the live games on IIHF's Youtube channel were blocked in UK.

I imagine Premier Sports had the rights. But about 3 people in the UK subscribe to that service

Premier Sports sister channel Freesports have the rights for the tournament. It's available on every TV service. Freesports show the Elite League and had the rights to 1A last year and this year as well.

 

[Kiev the Great]

Is that some well known British chant or are they singing "we're the s#!t"? That has a different meaning in English and it pretty much means "best".

It's self-deprecating humour. Since we lost the empire it's our number 1 export

 

[slovakiasnextone]

I watched the highlights and was amazed by how many British fans there were at the arena. Do you have any estimates of the actual number?

I wonder whether they will spread the word and the British stag parties will move from Bratislava to Kosice.

 

[GX]

I wonder whether they will spread the word and the British stag parties will move from Bratislava to Kosice.

You need some more low cost connections to Kosice. Currently only London operated by Ryanair/Wizz Air.

 

[Walrus26]

Is that some well known British chant or are they singing "we're the s#!t"? That has a different meaning in English and it pretty much means "best".

Standard self deprecating chant in the stands at football matches for fans of teams on the end of yet another beating. See also "we lose every week, we lose every week, you're nothing special, we lose every week.' When the bad team is actually winning replace the third line with" how sh1t must you be".

 

[Siamese Dream]

Ben Bowns should be the runaway winner.

The individual award will go to someone like Andy Murray for the 4th time

 

[Walrus26]

French players and fans were allegedly quite hostile towards GB fans last night unfortunately. Heard the same stuff from about 5 different people.

Relegation can do that to people. I speak from experience as a Crystal Palace fan.

 

[Walrus26]

I wonder whether they will spread the word and the British stag parties will move from Bratislava to Kosice.

Nice cheap flights to Kosice, plus mountains. Count me in. Except I'd need to get divorced and then get really lucky to have a stag do there.

 

[Jumptheshark]

French players and fans were allegedly quite hostile towards GB fans last night unfortunately. Heard the same stuff from about 5 different people.

Yep. I talked to the Cardiff supporters who flew back into Bristol today and they said the French supporters started acting up and the Fin supporters (who had the largest fan base in kosice) stepped to them and told them to calm down

 

[Nosswor]

Britain!

 

[robertmac43]

Super cool to see GB stay up, absolutely amazing for the sport. Possibly living there next year so I'm going to have to dive in to British club soccer and I guess the national team a little

 

[Jumptheshark]

without getting too political or historical

the fact team GB stays up at the expense of the the French makes it all the better

GB fans were singing Waterloo to the French fans in Kosice


and here is my observation

Team GB fans were out in force for the entire tournament and out numbers many other supporters is Kosice

 

[letsgocaps]

without getting too political or historical

the fact team GB stays up at the expense of the the French makes it all the better

GB fans were singing Waterloo to the French fans in Kosice

What?..
You really have a grudge or something. You're strange.

 

[MoeTheHobo]

What?..
You really have a grudge or something. You're strange.

Friendly rivalry between neighboring countries is nothing new

 

[unknownbrother]

What?..
You really have a grudge or something. You're strange.

There's a lot of British people who don't like the French and I bet there's an equal amount of French who don't like the British either.

 

[letsgocaps]

There's a lot of British people who don't like the French and I bet there's an equal amount of French who don't like the British either.

I don't think so. French don't really care about the Brits in general...
But I wasn't referring to the fans or the chants , which I thought were gentle teasing. But to the poster who seems to actually have a grudge against France, since he spent dozens of post wishing for them to get relegated etc.
Anyway case closed for me.

 

[Belizarius]

Yep. I talked to the Cardiff supporters who flew back into Bristol today and they said the French supporters started acting up and the Fin supporters (who had the largest fan base in kosice) stepped to them and told them to calm down

We really had French fans there ? lol
must be isolated guys, because I don't think we had a lot of people there...

 

[unknownbrother]

I don't think so. French don't really care about the Brits in general...
But I wasn't referring to the fans or the chants , which I thought were gentle teasing. But to the poster who seems to actually have a grudge against France, since he spent dozens of post wishing for them to get relegated etc.
Anyway case closed for me.

I don't have anything against France but in this case with hockey it was us or them so I was also hoping for France to be relegated.

 

[Jumptheshark]

We really had French fans there ? lol
must be isolated guys, because I don't think we had a lot of people there...

There were not many when I was there

 

[Belizarius]

There were not many when I was there

Yep, and I'm pretty sure having 1500+ fans British fans helped the team.
I saw only 4-5 french flags in the stands. Maybe 12-30 people at best, and I never met them, so it could just be some players' families...

 

[Friar85]

Yep, and I'm pretty sure having 1500+ fans British fans helped the team.
I saw only 4-5 french flags in the stands. Maybe 12-30 people at best, and I never met them, so it could just be some players' families...

Any chance France hosts 1A next year?

 

[Urbanskog]

Any chance France hosts 1A next year?

Looks like Slovenia has the only bid to host the tournament.

 

[Friar85]

Looks like Slovenia has the only bid to host the tournament.

Thanks