England won their game and are thru to the next round of the World Cup. Predictably this was all over the tabloid front pages. We  understand that they should be reporting it, but should they really make it sound like there’s a war on?

The Mirror was particularly objectionable with its jingoistic knocking of the Argentinian team.

I remember this being ludicrous. It was twenty years after the Falklands War and yet the tabloids covered this story as if the war was still going on. And ten years on I can’t say that this has got any better. The tabloids still treat Argentina as though it’s an enemy nation. It’s just like the way the Germans were portrayed as I was growing up in the 60s and 70s.