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Stubborn, obnoxious England fans wait patiently, but will World Cup come home?

The expatriate comes from a country that believes everything ever created belongs to them. Sport is a classic example. Cricket, for instance. The British believe that cricket was not only invented in Britain, but that it still, by right, belongs to Britain. Consequently, they get rather annoyed when they lose matches - something they historically often do.

India has a fun play on this idea of Britain's ownership of cricket, and sometimes argues that 'Cricket is an Indian game accidentally discovered by the British'.

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