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World Cup semi-final: Why does Argentina 'hate' England so much?

England will face Argentina in the 2026 World Cup semi-finals after Lionel Messi's team defeated Switzerland.

This comes as a meticulous Thomas Tuchel warned the Three Lions would need to "play bette

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They don't like us because they lost the Falklands War and they're sore losers.
There wasn't the same level as bad blood before the war, a war which was totally unnecessary. Instead of raging against us for beating them in the war, they should really be blaming the inept regime that took them to war in the first place, but they won't because of course its better to blame foreigners than your own.
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@maybedan From YouTube ↗ 14 Jul 2026 22
I don't understand how you can invade somewhere that wasn't yours to begin with, lose and have many men on both sides killed and still feel anger to the people you attacked...
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Sending their navy to the bottom of the ocean might have something to do with it
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I was at Wembley in1974 when Argentina was going to the World Cup and England wasn't. I don't remember much of the game, but the vitriol was 11 on a scale of 10.
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what about owens dive for the penalty in 98?
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20 seconds in and David Baddiel is on, I didn't make it to 30 seconds
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They don't 'hate' us. There is a lot of British influenced culture over there. They love British rock, they watch the English premier league over there - you should go over there and get talking to people and when they ask you where you from and you say 'England' they will be happy to speak to you. That's the only thing that will happen.

Argentina is the only country where I had the most meals in people's houses that weren't my family.

Argentina is the only country where taxi drivers rounded my fare down.

And it isn't like they're the only country that has moronic football fans (which they do have...) when our fans sing 'if it weren't for the English you'd be krauts' or 'two world wars and one world cup' do German political commentators ask 'do the English hate us?'
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Is everybody forgetting something , all experts are giving their opinion and advice on all channels across the world but they are forgetting one vital fact Argentina has been to seven FIFA World Cup semis and have not lost a single one of them never
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James " abandoned" O'Brien gagging for Thursday.
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This feels like a piece to fill a slow news day. I've been to Argentina, fantastic country and very friendly people. Plenty come here and there have been and still are loads of Argentinian players here.

This is a ridiculous piece, why do it?
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My wife's Argentinian. I visit all the time, they don't hate us.
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I’m Argentinian living in Australia. We don’t hate the English people.
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@vinny5083 From YouTube ↗ 14 Jul 2026 28
I'm argentinian and i don't hate english people. And there is a lot of poeple thinking as i do. We just say that Malvinas Is our land. War was politicians issues that in the past. I know theres is a lot of people who hate, but a lot it doesn't as well.
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As argentinian , I dont hate the english...❤ like grow up people
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I would say Serbia and Albania is up there
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I love the World Cup
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Is it not the other way around??
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Do they though? Where I currently live I come across many Argentinians and hating Brits it's not something that ever comes up.
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@scorpio_67 From YouTube ↗ 13 Jul 2026 118
The main reason is the Falklands.
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@eagleitalia From YouTube ↗ 13 Jul 2026 130
Everyone in this video seems terrified to say "The Falklands". That's the reason. Let me tell you, one Argentinian girlfriend in my past, they hate us because of the Falklands.