The United Kingdom (UK) participates in a lot of events and tournaments as one country. However, in football, it’s a different story. In all the football tournaments, England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales are all separate. At the 2018 FIFA World Cup, only England made it to the finals and as the Three Lions keep marching on, the chants of “it’s coming home” has only grown louder.
Wild celebrations have been reported from all corners of England ever since the country reached their first semi-final since 1990 with a 2-0 win over Sweden. Meanwhile, videos have emerged where a group of English fans were seen invading a Swedish furniture store in west London and destroyed a number of belongings.
But the moot question remains: is the whole of UK celebrating England’s success in Russia? Opinions are divided. Despite being a part of one big United Kingdom, there is an existent line of tension between these nations. Brexit further intensified all of that. Last year, voting was done to determine whether the United Kingdom would move out of European Union and a common term Brexit was given to it, meaning Exit of Britain.
Most of the people in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland did not want Brexit to happen but most people in England did. Courtesy the population of England, Brexit happened and the opinions and people of UK have been even more divided ever since.