Saturday, June 25, 2016

Column: No Brexit, please! This is football (The Associated Press)

Wales fans cheers in front of the team after Wales wont he Euro 2016 round of 16 soccer match between Wales and Northern Ireland, at the Parc des Princes stadium in Paris, Saturday, June 25, 2016. Wales beat Northern Ireland 1-0. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

So soon after Britons voted out of the European Union, this was unexpected: Enthusiastic throngs of Frenchmen merrily turning out to cheer them on. For many of them, Brexit, the turning of backs across the English Channel, was a rude slap in the face. Only, perhaps, at a football stadium would this have been possible.


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