Argentine players celebrated victory over England with a banner saying “Las Malvinas son Argentinas”, making reference to the 1982 Falklands war
Drive with John Perlman · 16 July 2026 · 7m
Speaker 1: Whether you're following every match match or just the ones that matter most. Speaker 2: Stay connected to seven oh two Cape talk. Speaker 1: And aw n Donzo donzere. Speaker 3: To stay connected to the world's greatest game. So on the pitch, Argentina to England Speaker 3: won lots of discussion in football in terms about the decisions made by the England Speaker 3: manager Thomas Tuchilbert. Also prompting a huge amount of discussion was a banner displayed by Speaker 3: the Argentinian players after the game, Las Malvinas Son Argentinas making reference to the nineteen Speaker 3: eighty two Falklands War and asserting that the island that the British refer to as Speaker 3: the Falklands belongs to Argentina. This conflict and tension between Argentina and England has very Speaker 3: long roots, steep ones football terms. It goes back to the mid nineteen sixties and Speaker 3: obviously on a much more fundamental level the war in nineteen eighty two that I Speaker 3: referred to. Speaker 1: So what is this all about? Speaker 3: Let's talk to John Carlin, author and journalists, who joins us now on the line Speaker 3: from Barcelona. John, you've lived in Argentina, You've written about this issue. Can I assume Speaker 3: you weren't surprised at this manifesting in Atlanta the way it did last night, not Speaker 3: even slightly. Speaker 1: John, No, you might recall it. Speaker 4: Before the game, the Argentine manager Leonel Scalloni was asked to what degree the whole Speaker 4: Marinas, you know, Falkland's question would condition the state of mind of the plaza, and
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