A good football team is full back, very good.
With a good defender, we can support the forward
Ah yes I have a few uncles in Torino. Wonderful and underrated city I feel, really enjoyed my time there - love the Po!
She has tenuous links to England given she is born (albeit as a protestant) in Northern Ireland. I have had to explain to the children that Great Britain and the United Kingdom and England are not necessarily the same thing and generally 99.9% of every resident of Great Britain and the United Kingdom that is not English or born in England (or as a protestant in NI!) will not support England - ever. Kind of hard to explain to a 6 year old and a 7 year old but their lack of support for England and cheer for Italia seems to indicate they got it. And no, the wife did not intervene!!!
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Bravo, bravo! The best team on the tournament won.
Ah, understood very well. My wife was born and lived until the age of 11 in Portrush NI (your wife will know it); her father was a a card carrying Orangeman. Only the Irish can understand the Irish.
I know, but my approach to the fun in sports (and other activities) is totally different, both being a performer and a member of the audience
First: I’ve never found any fun/meaning etc in competing only because of money or gold medals, because my award was and is just sporting
Second: the few cases when I competed for an amateur cup or medal, in judo, tennis, ping-pong, and football only, I always had more fun sweating blood to save a goal, to make an incisive ace, with teams/players better than me, than the opposite
So, to me teams/players with a defence approach are boring, and doesn’t matter if the team of my country wins or not because I am not a fan of my country (not mentioning politics & ethics of too-many of my fellow citizens that I hate)
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BTW, Pure fun in tennis…
Me too, Defense is annoying. For the first time in my life I cheered for Italians. Still, my all-time favorite team was Holland in the '70s. Total football. Cruyff, Neeskens & co.
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Sure, I dropped a link above about the 1974 West Germany vs Netherlands game
and I drop here another about Cruyff
But I also loved the funambulism of Brazilian football players, and Maradona gorgeous dribblings
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Ah yes, I remember the “hand of god” 
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hahahaha, you are terrible
Maradona made worse mistakes than that anyway, and many other players of any country did some “prank” on the football ground, but I always appreciated him for that mix of power and dribbling
In my bookmarks I had an entire site about Holland national team of the '70s, but I recently discovered that the site has gone. Their playing was a symphony.