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In May, as thousands of England fans prepared for a few summer days in Portugal, the Football Association felt compelled to release a short video, less than a minute long, with a simple request. A request so simple, in fact, that it should not really have to be made. Over footage of a man throwing a bicycle into a canal, jumping on a car, and taking his shirt off in a restaurant, it asked one thing of fans: don’t be that idiot.