Before we moved over to Sweden, one of Mr.B's colleagues gave him a bright yellow 'Sverige' t-shirt just so he would know who to support when we got here. And moving to a new country does give a certain sense that you should be cheering them on in their sporting ventures as it would be rude not to. The difficulty comes when your home country team comes up against your adopted country - who do you cheer for then?
We didn't expect it to be much of an issue for a while as Sweden didn't qualify for the football World Cup, and wouldn't necessarily have played against England even if they had. But then came the Winter Olympics. We've taken an interest in both Great Britain and Sweden as they've been going on and haven't begrudged Sweden their 8 medals to GB's 1. But now it's the acid test - Sweden and Team GB are currently going head-to-head in a tense playoff for the last place in the men's curling semi-finals and all of a sudden we have to pick our allegiances.
I'm wondering if it's wrong to just cheer on whoever is winning at the time...
(But on Saturday, regardless of who is skiing from Britain or Sweden, we shall be cheering on Ghana and the Snow Leopard in the Men's Slalom.)
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