Back in the old days, BBKA, when I used to watch football matches with the sound turned on I recollect a world cup game where the two "pundits" ripped the two [foreign] teams on the park to shreds and asserted that their team [England] would have the beating of both. What they did not mention, and anyone new to the competition would never have found out from their remarks, was that one of the teams, Croacia? had defeated England in the previous round.
Such is the passion aroused in small minded little englanders that they could not see the incongruity of their remarks and this from people paid mega bucks from the BBC.