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The Italians are deluding themselves about the English

17 July 2021

4:00 PM

17 July 2021

4:00 PM

Not content with winning Euro 2020, many Italians have spent the days since the final engaged in a febrile orgy of moral supremacy. Italians are not just much better than the English at football, you see (which is fair enough, although they did only win on penalties), but many Italians are insisting, even more excitedly, that the Italians are much better people than the English.

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