In a way, tonight’s England vs Belgium football match ought to be win-win. If England beats Belgium there will be mass celebrations – but even if they lose they’re still though and a bad performance could take them into an easier route to the final.
Yet Mr S suspects that this isn’t the reason a number of non-Belgiums will be cheering on the other team. Jeremy Corbyn’s man in Brussels Richard Corbett and Leo Varadkar have said they will be cheering on Belgium. Now the Financial Times’s Peter Spiegel has been revealed to be cheering the other side – he even has the scarf to prove it:
More evidence of misplaced loyalties @SpiegelPeter news editor from Arizona is backing, er, Belgium 🇧🇪 @FT#WorldCup pic.twitter.com/XBsJsUfWoK
— Lionel Barber (@lionelbarber) June 28, 2018
Well, at least you can’t call the American a citizen of nowhere…
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