Hamann Pineapple said:
nijinsky's fetlocks said:
Sorry, but that is utter bollocks.
Every French person knows precisely what the gesture means.
You would have to be beyond thick not to know it's meaning and how it would be perceived.
I'd be interested to know what makes you so sure about something very few of us had ever heard of a week ago.
Possibly because my wife is French and hates fascists with a passion, as do I, and I lived there three years.
Very few folk had heard about it because it hadn't been done as a goal celebration previously, or if it had nobody in the media had picked up on it.
Now I don't trust the media as far as I can urinate into a force ten gale, but they are only reporting what somebody has been daft enough to do here.
They haven't made anything up - it is what it is, regardless of who they play for, and they are fucking stupid to do it in the first place.