How on earth can you defend the rascism of spanish fans in any way, I don't think anyone was slagging Spain or the spanish off as a whole just those fans and some leading personalities within football who are rascist. I certainly wouldn't try and defend the kind of antics you described above about english people wearing footies tops, vomiting everywhere etc. To try and say that being rascist is ok if it defends the countries way of life is spectacularly wrong in so many ways, rascism can never be seen as an acceptable way to protect your countries way of life as it can only harm it. I think you will find at least 99% of people on here wanted Spain to win. They just need to sort the rascism on the terraces out and stop the likes of Arragones spouting it in interviews, if you can't then Uefa/Fifa need to, although I don't think they have the bottle to do so.