Marcus Speller

So a poster.

has gone viral back in Japan, urging Japanese men to clean up after themselves at home.

Are these posters being handed around to the Japan fans?

Because if they're just at home, that's pointless because they're away.

I need to look into that if I've got that wrong.

But yeah, the poster shows a man picking litter at the stadium with the same man sitting on a sofa at home while his wife cleans the dishes.

maybe but I think that it shows what I absolutely know to be true and what the wife I have access to reminds me of all the time is that I only want to do something if I'm going to get credit for it and it's broadly the case here isn't it because the Japanese fans are happy to clear up the rubbish in the stadium when the world's media are on them but they're not putting their plates in the dishwasher yeah be real man and leave your rubbish alone just chuck it in the stadium was that not the message one thing or the other be consistent

Be consistent.

I just think it's become performative.

This whole thing stems from when the Japan team, I think in a football match, they always leave the dressing room tidy.

Okay.

Which I think is about hospitality and that kind of stuff.

This is like, oh, let us clean up the rubbish so everyone can see us doing it.

I don't rate it.

Yeah.

But I do like Japan as a team.

I think they're great.

They're brilliant.

It would be quite, it's amusing the right word, if the fans went, all right, fine.

And then the result of that poster was they just didn't tidy up in the stadium.