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  1. #21
    Quote Originally Posted by Pokster View Post
    Strangely enough when you are the first country to have an Open championship you won't prefix it with the the country... so ours is The Open, why should we change the name afterwards
    Also, why Wimbledon isn't The British Open

  2. #22
    Quote Originally Posted by SWv2 View Post
    The Jockanese invented Golf, you can't disown them one second and then claim them as yours next.

    Football I will give you though I do believe the Chinese are now trying to claim it as theirs.
    As Dara Ó Briain points out in his excellent book on the English (Tickling the English) we didn't really invent sports merely unified certain ones under a set of Laws - games similar to rugby, football etc existed all over the world
    Last edited by Luis Anaconda; 06-18-2018 at 01:24 PM.

  3. #23
    Quote Originally Posted by PSRB View Post
    Also, why Wimbledon isn't The British Open
    Well strictly speaking Wimbledon isn't Wimbledon.

    It is just held there.

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