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There redeeming themselves
Ah here…classic Irish begrudgery requires/demands that you don’t want your neighbour to win anything or even have fleeting moments of happiness.
We never liked the Bally lads!
Had to delete your post. Running scared like the England hooligans are of the Serbs.
English fans running away again. What a shock.
Meh
Imagine having to bring your own riot squad.
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Truly there are days when, as the poet Browning says, God is in His Heaven and all is right with the world. Today is such a day: a cloudless June sky, the oxen reposed in the shade of the mighty British oak, the reek rising from a million barbecues, and England beginning its World Cup endeavour.
In our hearts, we know that Sven-Goran Eriksson’s team may not be the favourites; but we also know that this is as decent a crack at the trophy as England has had since 1970.
Readers with no interest in football must surely have been caught up, however slightly, in the national mood. The flag of St George flies everywhere - except over certain misguided council buildings. Even readers in Scotland, Wales and Ireland cannot be wholly indifferent. For the profusion of English flags shows that the English have at last understood the nature of our national settlement.
Only rarely these days do we hear the solecism that used to cause so much annoyance in the other component parts of the kingdom, namely the use of “England” to mean “Britain”. In 1966, England fans flew the Union flag almost to a man; today, they have finally grasped the difference.
It is true, of course, that many of our Scottish readers will be cheering heartily for Paraguay this afternoon. But it would be wrong to infer too much from what is, after all, a game. Had Tottenham Hotspur played CA River Plate at the height of the Falklands, we suspect that a fair number of Arsenal fans would have been cheering the Porteños; but that wouldn’t have meant that they wanted to lose the war.
We can all feel a sense of benign patriotism about one of our most popular inventions. Never mind all that nonsense about the Chinese having started the game. It was the British who codified and exported it, which is why so many foreign clubs have English names: Athletic Club Bilbao, AC Milan (not Milano), Corinthians in São Paolo. We can, in short, give ourselves a hearty pat on the back; but not just for this.
Football is only one of the many innovations we have given the world: rubber bands, spinning jennies, steam engines, penicillin, cat’s eyes, the internet. We are a bold, spirited, adventurous people. Let’s not confine our patriotism to the sports field, as po-faced Eurocrats urge. Let’s treat the outpouring of self-celebration as the beginning of something that will last, regardless of what happens on the pitch.
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Cunts couldn’t even get through the first game without rearranging street furniture
I’d say The Serbs would give the English larger louts a right doing if they go mano o mano
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CB Guehi out is all 
There’s no objective reason to like the English football team
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It really does feel that the tournament proper is getting underway tonight as the pre-tournament favourites get their campaign underway.
Saka is a thoroughly alright sort.
Come on England.
A spine tingling first ever rendition of God Save the King on the European Nations Cup stage.
Not sure about those England jackets