But the highlight for me was when the program spoke about what the games should be about and how fans should behave. Guess who were used as the example of the perfect fans? You guessed it – Soca Warriors fans! Yeah!!!!!!!!
They had a piece on the cricket match between the Warrior Nation and the England Fans, as well as highlights of the mini carnival through Nuremburg, and of trini fans feting after the matches. Take a bow my people. We are now the yard stick by which football fans’ behaviour will be judged.
I need to correct a few mistaken things that have been written here, although I do agree that this programme did highlight a few problems that we have. Firstly we need to distinguish between the term British and English, they are not the same thing. Secondly they also stated that 99% of English people attended the World Cup and did do as the slogan stated 'a time to make friends'. If you use the Home Office figures for the amount of English people who travelled to Germany, they quote a figure of 350,000, then that's a lot of people enjoying themselves and behaving peacefully.
Thirdly the whole programme was a biased and misrepresentation of what happened in Germany and has provoked quite rightly a stream of protests. If the undercover crew were that good then how come they managed to get themselves arrested and locked up with the rest of the so called hooligans?? And how come the only people they interviewed in Germany were some young teenagers from Huddersfield who came in a gang of 3??
If you must poke fun at the English football supporters then please get your facts right first. In the programme they showed the cricket match, they also showed English fans attending a school in Cologne to make friends with the schoolchildren and they also showed another group of England fans attending the Documentation Centre in Nuremberg and discussing the centre with the Chief Scientist to help understand how Nazism grew in that part of Germany. Now I've watched this programme 4 times, I was interviewed for the documentary as well and I've yet to find any commentary that says that the Socca Warriors are the example of how we should behave. How come you are the yard stick by which we should be measured?
If you really are interested then heres the link;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/programmes/panorama/default.stm