Embracing the North Korean model of sporting denial, psychologists have suggested delusions of grandeur are preferable to the grim reality of losing. A fellow supporter explained: ‘The problem is not our inability to win, it’s that other teams create an unfair comparison. Frankly, I’d rather not know’.
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