Hating a player because he does something that hurts the club you support is rational (at some level) and cognitively consistent.
Hating a player, regardless of what he is doing now, who once did something that hurt your club is neither rational nor cognitively consistent.
It's just juvenile and pathetic. Did you hate Sol Campbell and refuse to celebrate our unbeaten season because he was once Spurs?
Rational? Certainly not. But consistent, absolutely.
If the way we both claim to feel about Spurs and its players throughout the year is to mean anything at all, I don't see how you cannot feel even slightly emotionally compromised by supporting an England team comprising so many of them.
"Scoring a goal is better than sex" - Whoever said that was sticking it to the wrong woman
If you have watched television recently Pat you will have noticed millions, yes millions of English people taking enormous pleasure in the World Cup and England's success in it. I'm willing to bet that a large portion of those people support football clubs to some degree.
The difference is that they are all rational and socially functional human beings. Quite unlike Monty.
It's all contrived. No-one cares anywhere near as much as they claim. All these scenes of fans going crazy is heavily confected. Of course they are having fun, but the football is an *excuse* to have fun. That's because international football is inherently incapable of eliciting the same kind of visceral passion as club football. In a country like England, it simply lacks any real sense of tribalism.