headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 20d people often try to read into the political motivations and performances of football clashes but you have to understand thats a waste of time. it's all this
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I was ribbing on England before the Norway match in the same way I'd seen my very British boss bant at a pub and got some pushback, which reminded me that apparently this isn't as widely understood as I'd thought lmao
this is why the group stages of the world cup are a utopian paradise (people from countries the world over interacting, sharing culture, watching the games) and the final knockout stages are hell on earth (an excuse for even communists to start doing the kind of nationalism that gets you fired)
Infinitely funnier when its a rivarly between two towns in England that have existed for hundreds of years and no one has ever heard of