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Darf ich als grosser Fan der englischen Fussballnationalmannschaft Ferien an der Algarve buchen, obwohl die Engländer schon viele wichtige Spiele gegen die Portugiesen verloren haben?Andy Kramer, Wettingen

Go – and go at once, before it’s too late. For years Portugal has beaten England at football, and the English have taken revenge by staging symbolic invasions of Portugal: «holidays», you call them. The English arrive with pockets full of strong pounds, humiliate Portuguese taxi drivers by paying for a five-euro crosstown ride with a ten-euro note and saying: «Keep the change, mate», before getting drunk and symbolically vomiting all over Portuguese soil. But hurry! The financial ...