Haaland says he wants England to do well

Imagine being shocked that a kid liked the England shirt first because it probably looked cooler and got more airtime than Norway at the time absolute world ending news apparently
 
This is one of those comments that gets judged like a statement of allegiance when really it is just a throwaway line about childhood preference and the whole reaction says more about football culture than it does about Haaland tbh it is just fans projecting all sorts onto a jersey story
 
I dont get the people saying this is deep at all because he literally explained it as a simple preference and thats it no need to invent some hidden message or make it into England propaganda or whatever the internet is doing today
 
He probably just saw the England shirt and thought yeah that looks proper mint and now half the comments are acting like he has taken the throne at St Georges Park absolute state of it
 
I can see why it has got attention because Haaland is such a big name, but the quote itself is very low stakes. He is basically saying he had a childhood soft spot for England, which is not the same as making some grand footballing statement.
 
I actually think people are being unfair to him here because if you are a kid and you grow up seeing England shirts everywhere and Norway shirts less so then obviously you might end up with the England one first and that does not mean you hate your own country or anything daft like that it just means you were a kid and shirts are shirts and the whole thing is being treated like some massive betrayal when it is clearly not and honestly the reaction is more embarrassing than the quote itself because everyone is so desperate to turn a normal answer into something dramatic and it is just pathetic really
 
At first glance this is just a harmless quote about liking a shirt, and I get why people are laughing at it because it is a bit random and very Haaland in the sense that he says things in a blunt way that sound bigger than they are but the more you see people spiralling over it the more annoying it gets because now it is every idiot online trying to make it about loyalty and identity and all that bollocks and honestly if he wants England to do well then fair enough, why are people so bothered, its a bloody shirt not a declaration of war and the whole reaction is just getting more stupid by the minute
 
The sensible reading is that he was just talking about childhood fandom and the fact he had an England shirt first is funny enough on its own, but of course once a big player says something even slightly unusual the whole thing gets inflated into a debate about national allegiance and whether he is secretly taking the piss out of Norway and that is where football chat always goes completely sideways because people cannot resist making a simple answer into a personality test and now everyone is using it to score points about who is more loyal or more authentic and its all a bit daft really
 
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