(Image) British football fans display collective stupidity in spelling of ‘El Clasico’

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Brits are rubbish at foreign languages, kids spend too long in front of the TV and not enough time in the classroom, the education system is going down the drain… All headlines we’re used to seeing, especially with the 2015 General Election looming.

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It turns out that all those common complaints have got a real-world consequence – nobody in the UK seems to have a clue how to spell ‘El Clasico’.

Just look at the UK’s trending topics on Twitter from Sunday evening:

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