@timreay@MELOWILD@reallyoptimized@PadraigOraghail All good points, but the basic fact remains that, for example, France and Germany are two different countries with different languages, different national histories, different national media, different religious make up, different national government systems...
@OpenCourt@bronwentessania@marcus_buckland You've seen the umpire pre-match speeches which they don't listen to. Sometimes the umpire has to call a player's name two or three times for the coin toss, before they snap out of their zone.