Being from Liverpool, and I hope other people can hear me out, I've always had a weird relationship with the England football team.
Cricket? I'm a big England fan. Doing the Aussies (apologies to the Aussies on here
) is a great feeling for me. English golfers - always behind them. Even Rugby - I hope they do us proud.
But football - hmm always been a tricky one. I mean, Gary Neville, Bryan Robson, Wayne Rooney....?
It's a Liverpool thing. When it comes to the big tournaments do I want France to hammer England? No I don't. But for the intervening four years I couldn't really care less.
For everybody who supports Liverpool and isn't from Liverpool, I'm afraid this is one of those things you have to just understand.
Some of us scousers
a) really couldn't care less
and then some of us are like me
b) essentially 'bandwagon-jumpers' who will be half-interested. Hope we beat countries we have been undone by in the past, eg. Argentina, France, Portugal, but I wouldn't necessarily go and see the England team parade the World Cup trophy if they were say, more than a 15 minute walk away.
It really is an odd thing.
But yes, some of us scousers don't strongly identify as being English. Just the way it is.
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