As a commentator on international politics, it is naturally tempting to draw some trite geopolitical lesson from the World Cup. There are those who believe that the unexpected early elimination of France and Italy at this year's tournament is a parable of the decline of Europe. A commentator in El País, a Spanish paper, claims that England's loss to Germany over the weekend reflects Thatcherism's demoralising effects on the English proletariat. (And there was I thinking that it had something to do with lumbering centre-backs and a disallowed goal.)
作爲國際政治評論員，我自然會忍不住想從世界盃中總結一些老套的地緣政治教訓。有些人認爲，法國和義大利隊在今年的世界盃上出人意料地早早被淘汰，象徵着歐洲的衰落。西班牙報紙《國家報》(El País)的評論員宣稱，英格蘭敗給德國，反映了柴契爾主義消磨英國工人階級意志的不利影響。（而我看來，行動遲緩的中後衛和那粒無效進球要負一定責任。）
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