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Football brings us together – but that shared sense of a diverse and definitive collective identity needs to be built beyond the World Cup, Alanna Byrne
The summer is underway and the first whistle on the 2026 World Cup has been blown. The beautiful game is back.
By the time you’re reading this, the group stages will be coming to an end, player performances will have been dissected, bets made, and we’ll be down to our last nerve over England’s latest attempt to bring football home.
With the World Cup comes another certainty: we’re in for a summer drowning in flags.