FOOTBALL fans sometimes have to come across a bit coy these days when they're put on the spot about why they don't like "them".
Gone are the days when a Scottish supporter would look at his questioner in disbelief or pity, puzzled that anyone should have to ask why he "hated the English".
Everyone is more sensitive to this sort of stuff now, to the extent that supporters of any international side have to tiptoe their way towards an explanation for how it's actually legitimate to boo and wish ill on another country's team for sound and historic football reasons, none of which makes the perpetrators xenophobic, racist or ignorant.
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