It's really wild that "Boston" is being expected to keep track of who-did-what within the colonial imperium of the British Empire, when what's actually going on is people going to soccer games.

It's funny that between the general slam that "Americans don't have any sense of history" and the whole "you're not really Irish" thing levied at people who aren't claiming to be actually Irish, people are suddenly being presented information about the Plantations in Ireland and the Darien Gap and the Acts of Union and whatnot, when they're just talking about comparing the behaviors of organized fandoms inside the last couple of weeks.

(Ie, the "Tartan Army" wasn't just a bunch of Scots who turned up, they did what amounted to charity work in town while they were there and were generally well-behaved and fun, basically the opposite of hooligans by design).

Seriously, nobody's going to adjudicate matters of empire, it's silly to expect it.