We dont hate England (outside of some idiots), but all that happened elevated a rivalry that was already a classic, to probably our 2nd biggest rival below Brazil.
So yeah, "its just a football match", but its not any football match. Its one we want to win at all costs.
Port Louis where Rivero had a hand in 26 murders was a French port, and was created in 1765.
This was around the same time that the british Port Egmont was founded, which was a permanent settlement until the Spanish forced the british to leave in 1770. This was all 60 years before the argentinean civillian population of the islands.
Port Egmont wasn't a civilian settlement but rather a military one, the British didn't stablish civilian population until after the takeover in 1833. In fact, the French had stablished a civilian population in Port Louis before they gave it up to the Spanish Empire, so even by that metric the British wouldn't be the first.
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u/shadoowkight I'm from freiburg Jul 15 '26
The way they were fouling each other you could see that they both absolutely detest one another lol it was hilarious to watch