I get that it’s a cool experience for them to play against top players, but I still don’t understand how they’re even in UEFA. If they were there own country, like San Marino etc., I’d understand but it’s literally just a British territory. It has about as much a claim to be there as the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man.
That headline inspired one of my favourite tweets ever. After there was a reported bomb threat outside the Inverness ticket office (turned out to be nothing) oldfirmfacts tweeted: “Super Callie blow ballistics next to ticket office”
I’d say Boca, River and Santos are probably the best known. Flamengo, Fluminense, Gremio, Palmeiras and São Paulo are probably the best known Brazilian teams. I doubt many people from outside of SA know anybody else apart from some of the other Brazilian or Argentine teams, unless they have an interest in SA football.
Vardy. The season before they won the league he was easily the worst starting striker in the Prem
It’s a bit of a stretch to compare the nationhood of Gibraltar with that of the home nations though, it doesn’t enjoy the same status as them within the U.K. Gibraltar is basically just a British city in Spain.
I do think it’s worth noting that UEFA literally changed the requirements for membership after Gibraltar joined to stop it happening again. Jersey tried to join after the changes but got rejected despite being larger, self-governing and with just as distinct an identity, arguably even more so. So the other problem with Gibraltar is you create a double standard were this one particular Territory can get in but other Territories can’t. When you factor in how terrible they are it just doesn’t make any sense to include them.