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Football is our gathering point. The place we all come together regardless of our political views or place of birth. Fintan O’Toole
“Southgate’s properly patriotic football team has wrong-footed Boris Johnson”, from The Irish Times, July 17, 2021. Is about how the 2016 referendum and its aftermath unpredictable would be fought on the football pitch.
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The Ingerland fans feel an entitlement to win, when they lose, they feel like they are being robbed of what is theirs.
The writer points out xenophobia, more precisely Ingerlandphobia. Brexit made the question about being English even more unavoidable and Englishness is now being confused with Ingerlandness both inside England
but also in the rest of the world. Boris Johnson has seen it as an opportunity to ride and feed with anti-immigrant paranoia.
This is what separates the nation even more, a prime minister who isn’t trying to gather the nation but only torn the people more apart.
It is definitely more likely that the Ingerland supports also are ‘somewheres’ and the writer of the text is an ‘anywhere’.
The author comes to the conclusion that instead of the concepts; Ingerland vs English, in the past the terms "Britishness and Empire" were used to cover Britain.
The British Empire was the result of the many colonies and territories that were under British rule, which constituted huge pride and nationalism, which he also mentions “There is, and always has been, another England.
It is proud and patriotic -”. Brexit is, among other things, driven by English nationalism.
The shameful racism that is expressed by these Ingerlandophobes during football is compared to Englishness and English politics. He mentions Brexit as a consequence of the English “identity crisis" among the British people.
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