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2024 Guinness Six Nations
2000 Years of History and Rivalry
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<blockquote data-quote="Thingimubob" data-source="post: 556676" data-attributes="member: 20956"><p>Rivalry. Simple as that, lot of historical rivalry between all of the home nations and then with France and Italy now too. Big part of it is you only get to play your rivals once a year, meaning you have to wait for a whole new tournament for revenge if you lose.</p><p></p><p>Also, I'm assuming you mention the Germans due to the English's perceived rivalry with Germany in football/sports in general? Always find that funny since the Germans don't see you lot as big rivals at all! You mention the 1966 world cup to them, and the most you'll get out of them is 'Oh that's the one the English won right?' and only if they know their football well! The Dutch however, they bloody hate 'em, they are 'the big one' if they are ever drawn against each other. Not overly fond of the Italians though, that's mostly due to them knocking Germany out of a lot of world cups/euro championships.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thingimubob, post: 556676, member: 20956"] Rivalry. Simple as that, lot of historical rivalry between all of the home nations and then with France and Italy now too. Big part of it is you only get to play your rivals once a year, meaning you have to wait for a whole new tournament for revenge if you lose. Also, I'm assuming you mention the Germans due to the English's perceived rivalry with Germany in football/sports in general? Always find that funny since the Germans don't see you lot as big rivals at all! You mention the 1966 world cup to them, and the most you'll get out of them is 'Oh that's the one the English won right?' and only if they know their football well! The Dutch however, they bloody hate 'em, they are 'the big one' if they are ever drawn against each other. Not overly fond of the Italians though, that's mostly due to them knocking Germany out of a lot of world cups/euro championships. [/QUOTE]
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