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Cake day: October 17th, 2023

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  • Ever since I was a kid I have loved following the smallest teams in Europe like San Marino and Liechtenstein, hoping they would get results and loving the fun of seeing a bunch of low-level players, often amateurs, get the chance vs world class players. When San Marino not only scored, but straight up equalised, I literally told my friends that I was watching the game with that “you have no idea how much I’m loving this right now, just wish it didn’t happen against us!” But then we made it 2-1 and it became obvious that something was wrong, first with the Sanmarinese players chasing Højlund immediately after the goal, and then with Kjær, who is fluent in Italian, having a lot of talks with both the Sanmarinese captain and the referee. We now know that that was because their players were openly talking about injuring Højlund, which is just despicable. Leaves such a bitter taste in my mouth that this was the reaction from the San Marino team to nearly missing out on their biggest result ever. I want to love it, even if it was against my country tbh, but the surprisingly disgusting behaviour from several of their players makes it hard, sadly. For the record, yes, it is also childish of Højlund to shush (or whatever he did) vs a minnow that we should be destroying 6-0. But that still doesn’t make any of the career-ending behaviour okay at all. That knee in the back could’ve destroyed Højlund, like with Neymar. And he already has had back problems.