LUXRoyal Rother To suggest we are a nation of sore losers is nonsense.
On the whole we play games with honour, we deal with our cheats, and we stand up for fair play, not just for ourselves but for our opponents. And we are humble and honest in defeat.
We compare very favourably with every other nation on the planet in this regard.
I have no doubt there was "politics" in the final decision, probably corruption too, but there is no way I would show any of my foreign ( ) colleagues what RR has posted here.
If that is not arrogance.................
To most people, the down side of English football is hooliganism (Heysel etc), a phenomenon now successfully exported to most of the rest of the world, and multiple death threats to that Swedish referee (Anders Frisk?) after we were knocked out of Euro 2004 iirc.
interesting, you could add that we're no bloody good at the game either