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Something different this week: to help us cope with England’s early departure from the World Cup, my friend Des Gallagher and I complain at length about the state of English football: the media buildup, pampered stars, the impact of the Premier League, foreign managers, and which team we’ll be supporting for the rest of the tournament. This inevitably gets a little “football-y” so apologies to any of you who have little or no interest in football, but the rest of you can nod knowingly along. Normal service will be resumed next week, when we’ll be back to talking about Ribena.
Without having listened to the session yet, I do wonder why on earth the UK
does not field a British team instead of 4 different teams?
Good question, Jochen. I’ve never understood why we’re “Great Britain” for the olympics, tennis, golf etc., but we play as “England” for footie, cricket, rugby etc. Of course, we did field a “Great Britain” footie team for the 2012 olympics, which enabled us to have the likes of Ryan Giggs, and we STILL went out on f*cking penalties…