Quote Originally Posted by RandBlade View Post
Or taking pride in their compatriots successes?
Feeling pride and sympathy for their compatriots failures?
Taking pride in their own flag?

Why so negative nelly about it all? Sport can bring the best out of nationalism as well as the worst. Given most people by and large are good, overall the nationalism is good and not bad.
Except the only way to define who you are is to agree to what (or who) you are not. You can't have nationalism without foreign (or in some cases, domestic) enemies. It's difficult to be Brazilian without dislike Argentinians. Just like it's difficult to be Scottish without disliking the English. In both cases, the dislike is a key component of national identity.