Nous sommes les meilleurs! Wir sind die Besten! We are the cosmopolitan, financially skewed, managerial-outsourcing champions!
It turns out the English aren’t coming. Look out of the window. We’re already here, in Madrid and Baku, Porto and Amsterdam, complaining about the milk, circling the cafe chairs, standing arms-spread on the hotel bar, simultaneously drunk on English exceptionalism and also deeply mistrustful of the phrase “English exceptionalism” because it contains a lot of syllables.
Written by Barney Ronay
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2019/may/10/great-english-football-moment-champions-league-forged-overseas under the title “European finalists deliver a very English great football moment forged overseas | Barney Ronay”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
