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Originally Posted by Pastiche
There is no one team that is more consistently overrated and overhyped than England. Everything in the Western media is about England. All the sideshow bs of who has changed their haircut, who's dating who, what someone said in practice. They dominate all soccer shows and news telecasts. And it is completely underserving. They have done nothing, to warrant being mentioned so much beyond the fact that they are 'England.'
I present you the Toronto Maple Leafs.
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What a stunner, I mean who would think that the only top contender from an English speaking nation would be the team that we always hear about in the English speaking press. I'm sure we'd hear lots about Holland, Germany, Portugal etc. if not for that pesky language difference. No Canadian/American mainstream media outlet has reporters covering the game, they simply bite bits and pieces from other coverage, and I'm doubting that there's much of a budget for translation.
If you want to actually think about it, which I doubt, you'd see that the coverage of English teams is completely sensical.