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In 2019, Alex Morgan, a player for the US women's soccer team, celebrated scoring against England by raising an imaginary cup of tea to her lips, complete with outstretched little finger.
Most English viewers took this as a dig at our national drink and our la-di-da ways. More detailed theories abounded.
One, put forward on a football website of the sort that exists to analyse everything about the game with the zeal of French philosophers discussing existentialism, was that it was