I'm not sure how arrogance can be self-deprecating.
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this staff writer knows next to nothing about england , the english, football , irony , arrogance or self deprecation - what a bullshit article
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Nope. Still arrogance.
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Be happy for them! They are a lovely bunch you old miser
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No need to go back to the 8th century. England is known as the home of Football because in the 1800s the rules of the game were written down and formalised in England. And how can you be "self-deprecating AND arrogant"? New Yorker always being snide about the English.....

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not quite - self deprecating arrogance?no optimism belief- ironic pride? no just pride - you got that wrong on all counts...theres no irony here or self deprecating arrogance
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Crikey- Americans getting the irony that some of the British traditional media are missing!

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what irony ?
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‘Frisky ironic pride’
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ummm not sure if youre being sarcastic but such a thing does not exist, and has never existed in the mentality of the english with regards to football or anything else - and only exists in the distorted comprehension of that staff writer
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i dont see the irony
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Frisky ironic pride? I thought that old thesaurus game of finding unrelatable words and slipping combinations into an article had gone out of fashion, but clearly it’s been upgraded into doing it in a tweet. Can I contribute gelatinous Druidic pantaloons?
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Very nice piece. England went into this tournament with the lowest level of public expectation I've known (and I remember 1970). The achievement to date is delighting the country and it is about pride (but not arrogance).
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I thought England went to Mexico as joint favourites with Brazil.
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Sorry, I didn't mean it like that. Yes, in 1970, expectation was sky high and it has been ever since until, I'd say, last time, with the last Euros being a particular low point. No expectation of anything really for England when this World Cup began.
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That lack of expectation was new.
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im available if you need an alistair cooke style "letters from england" understanding of the british, their game, irony and arrogance. As an ex-pat living in NYC we could call it "an englishman in new york" - by the inch or by the column - frisky
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Everything written by the New Yorker is intrinsically terrible.
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