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England squad responds to World Cup semi-final defeat against Argentina

Downing Street has backed calls for Fifa to investigate Argentina's players who celebrated their World Cup semi-final victory over England by brandishing a banner about the Falkland Islands on the pit

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Fact they used world cup to whine over islands they never had any right too is pathetic and deserves player bans
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@SAINT656 From YouTube ↗ 17 Jul 2026 5
Lol that gremlin at the beginning you can see why they lost the Falklands war 🤣🤣
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Any football player holding that banner should be banned from playing the next match
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I dont really understand why it is a sense of pride to them that they invaded some islands that never belonged to them (completely unprovoked), hundreds of their soldiers died, and then they surrendered...
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@TaxpayerUK From YouTube ↗ 17 Jul 2026 19
Fifa & US have a hand in this
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Their team won a football match, we still own the Falklands. 😌
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@SmileyC137 From YouTube ↗ 16 Jul 2026 23
I was just saying to my missus it was insulting the way they had acted towards our country.
We sang our national anthem with pride, while they shouted.
Utterly appalling team, I'd be ashamed to call myself Argentinan.

I was born in Portugal, but I have made my life amungst lions.
Thank you for the welcome, you will always have my full support.
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No, FIFA won't do whY should be done.
Come on Spain!
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I mean I get supporting your team but....that first guy is something else entirely
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FIFA will investigate nothing !! Infantino will do absolutely nothing about it ! but they can cry about it all they want, we all know who's flag fly's over Port Stanley....
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Yeah, politics & racism are two things that should be kept out of football.
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You would think the fans wouldn't start fights with the British, it didn't work out last time for them did it 😂
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Argentina has never had any claim to the Falklands.

They had a very small garrison for a small period of time after the Spanish withdrew but nothing more.

Learn the history, it goes back over a hundred years prior to the Falklands war
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Argentina will cry when Spain beat them.😮
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The Falklands war contributed towards ending dictatorship in Argentina , a dictatorship that murdered thousands of there own innocent people....they should be reminded about that...it might help them realise we did them a favour.
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They just look foolish - using a sporting event to whine about losing a war in which they were totally in the wrong is simply pathetic.
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It actually dishonours their soldiers surrender by continuity in sport
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@Sbenz-y4h From YouTube ↗ 16 Jul 2026 74
Imagine if the England players did a similar thing would be outrage disgusting
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@F1-GridLock From YouTube ↗ 16 Jul 2026 105
I thought FIFA said no politics at the world cup but I guess that doesn't matter when its Argentina
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@BadTwin From YouTube ↗ 16 Jul 2026 148
That's the same flag Argentina used at Falklands but with some writing on it.