Was trying to explain to a Colombian guy down here about the weird psychology of the British, the crutch of former glories played out as a lack of real drive to make sure we put the money into a sport to actually win it vs the assumption that we could win it.
I think he understood it when I said that if you asked pretty much any British person if ‘we won WW2’ they would say yes. And he was just amazed, like it was so clear to him that American and Russia were the two forces that made it possible to force Germany to surrender and he just hadn’t known what a bunch of washed up, glory-days wasters we were…