What's better to watch: Argentina vs Iceland or Spain vs Portugal in the World Cup or Juventus vs Tottenham or PSG vs Real Madrid in the Champions League?
There are many football supporters who proudly say that they would rather watch their club, rather than the national, team. So a team put together with a ridiculous amount of money (PSG) is more enticing to watch than a team that is representative of where players were born and started playing football and the country where the fans are from? For many fans, yes. From completely unscientific data based on online comments it seems there are many fans are more attached to the club they have chosen (very often not a club representing the city where the fans are from) than their country.
Away from the glitz of the Champions League, the Europa League threw up an interesting match-up between Arsenal and FC Ostersunds. It seems to be fate that it happened. Arsenal, the team embarrassed to be in this competition, against the upstart Swedish team who are having the time of their lives. And their coach is a relatively unknown Englishman. Now, as I said before (I did, look it up) will Arsenal start taking this seriously and will Ostersunds' start thinking that in the future getting into the Champions League is a better target that this lesser competition?
Diego Maradona is back in the news. He unveiled a 12 foot statue of himself in India. Or: he unveiled a 12 foot statue of a person who is holding the World Cup and he was told that it was him. As somebody said online it looked like "someone's gran".
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