World Cup tie takes place as EU leaders gather in Brussels, allowing footballing and political metaphors to mix freely
It’s not exactly Westminster v Brussels, but England and Belgium’s match on Thursday has become “the Brexit derby” that no World Cup has had before. Or possibly wanted.
On Thursday Theresa May attends a meeting of the European Council in Brussels, attending a dinner while England and Belgium’s footballers play their group G game 900 miles east in Kaliningrad. It’s just possible the British prime minister may share a bit of football small talk with her Belgian counterpart Charles Michel. “If the Brexit negotiations were a World Cup match, we’d be on the plane home,” bemoaned the Daily Mail’s Richard Littlejohn this week.
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