There is a feeling of frustration when you feel like you are the battling the tide of public opinion, when you don't want to concede that that opinion is correct, that it is not right that that opinion is shared by the majority: that frustration turns to anger. And that anger doesn't allow you to let go of your convictions.
All of that leads to two thoughts. One is that it wouldn't be time spent in Malta without a good argument. It takes a good friend to have a decent argument with. And, two, it reminds me that even though I am told time and time again to get over it I cannot forget South Korea in 2002: the wins in the World Cup against Italy and, even worse, against Spain. I can't get over them because the bad guys got away with winning through a lie. The majority thought it was fantastic that the underdogs got so far, but the realists are still waiting for somebody to pay for the blatantly outrageous decisions that led to the underdogs having their day.
Maybe this story hasn't gone away....
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