RE: FW: England humour

From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Fri Sep 07 2001 - 13:37:50 BST

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Subject: RE: FW: England humour
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    On 09/07/01 06:58, Vincent Campbell said this-

    >Remember the US Russia ice hockey matches of the Cold War and how the US
    >public felt about those games? Many many matches in football (Man
    >U/Liverpool, Rangers/Celtic, Milan/Inter, BArcelona/Real Madrid,
    >England/Germany, England/Scotland, England/Argentina, Germany/Holland etc.
    >etc. etc.) generate that kind of local, regional and national feeling as
    >those games did for the US.

    Tribal and xenophobic behaviors are just that, regardless of how masked.
    Today's soccer players are tomorrow's universal soldiers.

    - Wade

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