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Hardly, I've already pointed out the complete flaw in his ideology. Large poor countries will usually do better than small rich countries assuming the interest in football in constant. See Brazil vs. (well just about anyone).

I was being generous with saying footballing rivalry, but if England really think Argentina care about them more than their major geopolitical rivalry (and a huge country) that borders them - that is truly astonishing. By far the most glaring statement made during this World Cup. I lived in...

Trippier, not even a guaranteed starter for Tottenham better than a full back consistently scoring goals in the latter stages of the CL? He was involved in 18 goals in 39 games for Bayern - he is an exceptional player, far better than Trippier. Alisson played a crucial part in Roma reaching the...

No response? I'd have to copy and paste in your post into a quote, removing the text from my post. It was a complete mess, why can't you do it properly? I posted throughout the tournament. And yes, a minority of Scottish people (Rangers fans) support England too - look at Leo. Again, this...

Of course it was a success, a massive success. Probably their best tournament apart from 1966. And yet they still went out to a poor side with less than a tenth of their population. Germany and Spain are good teams with excellent pedigree, England are neither. And the second paragraph says...

No, I clearly talk on behalf of any England fan. Also, that's twice now you have misunderstood "1st knockout game" When England drew Colombia "footballs coming home" started and it ramped massively straight afterwards before going into fever pitch after the Sweden game. Don't believe me...

Not sure the numbers are terribly necessary, but yes they absolutely did believe they would be winning it from the first knockout round. Er, right, apart from all those articles in Croatia about how hated Modric is for cow towing to a corrupt official. And yes, Croatia aren't very good, why...

This has definitely been Englands best tournament since 1990 and indeed, quite possibly since 1966 given some of the caveats around 1990. However, scratch the surface and two key themes emerged: 1) England fans and pundits were talking about winning it since the first knockout round. Modric...

Except BBC South West (as well as many other English regions) have their regional news programmes on at the same time as Reporting Scotland on BBC South West. They report on what is happening in that region. Hence why it is regional news. Scottish news in this sense is regional news that is...

The rivalry is probably viewed in England how, say, the England Germany rivalry is viewed in Germany. Or the England Argentina rivalry is viewed in Argentina. You are a second rate rivalry, at best, to these nations.

First of all, Sky as a commercial entity has no requirement nor interest in representing anything but what will make them the most money. They have absolutely no interest in Scottish football, and their coverage makes this abundantly clear. This will never change. The BBC also broadcast to the...

Yes, the extent to which this should be covered in the news is up for debate but generally yes. Hence why having separate coverage is the answer. Again, yes. It was English pundits discussing England in a tournament they weren't in. Other home nations were not discussed to anywhere near the...

England weren't in Euro 2008 but we still had Lineker and Shearer talking about....England.

I don't particularly expect England fans to care. The sensible ones will recognise it, at the very least, but it's not their problem really. I don't want or expect English coverage to change. I just want separate coverage, much smaller nations can manage it - why not Scotland / Wales / Northern...

Why are you? If not interested, don't post about it. I don't know how it originated, but provides good context. I wonder how England fans would react about being repeatedly subjected to Barry Ferguson, Ally McCoist and Steven Thompson talking about Scotland during a Brazil Germany match.

Erm, I'm not saying there should be no world news but the happenings of the England and Wales NHS (or schooling, or police) has no impact on Scotland. It's big news there, but completely irrelevant here. It would be like hearing about the French Health service, it means absolutely nothing to us...

This most tenuous of thing was highlighted by an Ofcom report a year and a half before the World Cup started. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-39042666 Right, guess that means you will stop reading and commenting on it then.

They are incredibly sensitive, it seems. And a lot of the posters here seem to thrive on childish insults. Quite amusing really. They certainly don't actually want to discuss what has been posted.

We do not, most news stories from the BBC 6pm and 10pm news do not apply to us, but are broadcast to us. Erm, of the World Cup. With Scottish pundits and Scottish commentators (or whomever, not even necessarily Scottish). Just unbiased reporting of the football, we could even share with the...

Not really, I would say England losing to Iceland finishing below Ireland in Euro 2016 qualifying. Will England ever recover for 1974 and 1978 where they didn't qualify and Scotland did? I imagine most people don't even know about it. You can, but with some difficulty and not if you actually...