It has a national flag, a national anthem, internet codes, even a football team.

So let us not blame national character when the football team fail, the cricket team collapse and the rugby team blow hot and cold.

Having trained furiously during the vacation, he had expanded his muscles sufficiently to qualify as inside left in his class's football team.

He plays a teacher struggling with the pressures both on and off the pitch while coaching a newly racially integrated school football team.

DEFEAT for the football team you support spills over into the next day and has an adverse effect on work, a study found.