Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher engaged in a heated series of social media exchanges with Argentine X users, following a debate over the passion of English and Argentine football fans.
The exchange, a tongue-in-cheek interaction over football culture and working-class identities, began when an Argentine used derogatory terms to express envy about the Oasis hit-song Wonderwall being turned into an official football chant for the UK team.
The user complained about how Argentines were allegedly represented instead by “villero” culture, a slur used to describe people living in informal urban settlements in Buenos Aires.
A second user then responded that the Manchester-born, working-class brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher were actually the UK social equivalent to that same demographic, and that their lyrics reflected those origins as well as habits like alcohol and drugs.
But when a third one described them as “planeros” — a discriminatory, classist slang word to describe people who receive some form of welfare subsidy from the state — and said they spent their unemployment benefits on drugs, Gallagher hit back — thanks to X’s automatic translations — in his usual, swaggering style.
