And even then it is said that the Romans actually imported that game from China and Japan where it had been played for many centuries, while some accounts have it that the game was an Ancient Greek pastime called “Episkyros”. If the English had just stayed at home instead of deciding to carve an Empire — with the help of all the British, england kits of course — then everything today would be hunky-dory. According to this Anti-Imperialist mentality, everything bad that has ever happened in the history of the world can be traced back to English Imperialism. It is this dislike of the English Imperial Mind, as manifest symbolically in its football team, which animates some of the people who like to see England getting beaten.