Is England’s World Cup entitlement unique, or common in other countries?

[WhenTheDustSettles]

Do other countries have the same sense of entitlement to winning the World Cup as we do? All this 30, now 60, years of hurt thing, all the comments about how useless England are, that's gone on for as long as I can remember, how rubbish the managers are etc.

I've never researched it but we can't be the only country to have only won one, or zero World Cups.

Is it unique to England? Or our supporters, I doubt the team has the same sense of entitlement.

I personally judge harshly any person who listens to or sings along with ABBA's absolute timeless banger 'Happy New Year' - as anybody in 2026 who intones the ponderance about what life might be like in 1989 is 100% a moral disgrace of the worst kind

What do you mean We'll Meet Again? The war's over, Vera.

Maybe that's why Wales doesn't usually qualify for the World Cup - because the flag is far too complicated for supporters to paint on roundabouts?!

Are you all based in the UK? If your colleague is constantly moaning about the UK, then I'm guessing so?

There's nothing more pathetic than somebody who chooses to move to another country and then spends all of their time banging on about how rubbish it is. What does that say about them, then: that they deliberately opt for what they 'know' to be a terrible decision?! "That's obviously shit... so that's the one for me!!!"

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My STBX French brother in law is of the option that France were robbed, at every WC they didn’t win. Bizarrely DSis gave him an England 1966 replica shirt for his 50th , which have contributed to the STBX nature of their relationship.

Ha ha, it's not just us. I was in France the year they won the world cup (2018) and have been there during many european and world cup rounds. It is wall to wall coverage on TV with every single thing poured over by endless panel of experts. France games cause whole cities to come to a halt as everyone gathers outside bars and restaurants to watch the game.

The year France got to the final the town we were in did not stop all night - there were youths driving around all night, all piled in to open car bonnets cheering and sounding their horns.