Funny isn't it that the Welsh, Scottish and Irish are almost rabidly proud of where they come from yet us English (aside from those of us with a bulldog tattoo holding a shield with a Union Jack on it/any one in the Army.......well you would if you were putting your life on the line for your country) sort of sheepishly try to latch on to having some sort of heritage to link us to the other 3!!!!
It always cracks me up the way every Englishman on Paddys day desperately argues that they're somehow Irish.
My mate always does it in the world up after England gets knocked out.......proclaiming that he's practically Italian because his grandads paperboy once ate a pizza or some such lubricious link to Italian ancestory.