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Originally Posted by Sephiroth  Ah, your Scottish friend. Well, knowing what team she supports, I'm just glad you can annoy her.  |
Oh yes. Not sure if I mentioned it, but I bought her a birthday card recently. She complained because there was "too much green" on it. Sigh.
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Originally Posted by Sephiroth Because I'm the same as you. Club football is everything to me. The international game, I just don't feel the same about. Don't get me wrong -- as a neutral, I'm loving the World Cup. I'm a fan of football in general. But I don't get wound up about Scotland the way I do about United. |
Yes, yes and yes. I'm not sure if it's a quirk of geography or something, but most of the Geordie (and Mackem) fans I know seem to be largely indifferent to the national game in general and England in particular. I was chatting to a friend about the World Cup last week, and it took us about ten minutes to even mention England. Even then it was kind of:
"Reckon they'll win?" (please note: 'they' not 'we'
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"Nah."
"Me neither. What about Spain?"
"Oh, now you're talking..."