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ENGLISH CONQUEST: How the English still rule the world

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Athletics - Virgin Money London Marathon - London - 26/4/15 Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge poses with his trophy after winning the Men's Elite race Reuters / Suzanne Plunkett Livepic

They exported civilisation and Christianity to Africa. Their language is the globe’s lingua Franca. The English colonised the world and are still ruling swathes of the globe from Down Under to some parts of Caribbean islands to-date.

They invented television sponsorship of football and took it to stratospheric levels. Football is now a major economic driver, nay an industry, all over the world, thanks to television sponsorship.

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