Football makes people feel things few other games manage. A single goal can lift an entire city. A missed penalty can ruin a Saturday for millions. Somewhere between all that drama and devotion sits a line from Queen Elizabeth II that sums the whole thing up in one breath: "Football's a difficult business, and aren't they prima donnas? But it's a wonderful game." It's teasing and fond at the same time, the kind of comment that gets a knowing laugh from anyone who has ever loved a team through a genuinely bad season. Coming from someone who spent seventy years watching British life from close up, it also carries a bit more weight than the average passing remark about sport.
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