Argentina's Political Message in Football

Well, let's show you the images then of that flag unfurled by the players

at the game.

Las Melvinas son Argentinas, it says.

This came after Argentina's vice president called England usurping pirates just

hours before the game started.

It was done by a woman called Victoria Villaruel,

a hardliner in Javier Mille's government.

Javier Mille, of course, supported by Donald Trump as well,

who linked the Falklands War to the fixture.

Tomorrow we play against the usurping pirates. This isn't just another match.

I'm not going to be politically correct or cold hearted against the English.

It's always something more.

It's the Malvinas, it's Diego, it's Leo's last one,

and it's putting the brakes on the invaders.

That's spoken by Argentina's vice president. Nick Powell, first of all,

just identify the players as far as you can who are holding this up.

We're certainly in another shot. We can see Lionel Messi standing very nearby.

It's pretty much all of them.

It is, as you say, it's a national feeling.

It's not a feeling by a few individual players. That is what the country feels.

It isn't going to change.

The fact that the referendum went so massively in favour of staying part

of Britain does not wash with Argentina, doesn't wash with any of those players.

And I don't think there's a single one that their Scottish 26 have said,

no, I don't want to hold up that flag.