Reminds me a little too much of Horace, as taken up in Wilfred Owen's WW1 poem, Dulce et decorum est:
[Roughly: If you had seen the horrors of war],
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.
(It is sweet and noble to die for one's country.)
Footy is just a game, after all.
The other profound reason against re-adoption of the Latin is that RWO would break out in conflict over whether to pronounce 'vincere' as VIN-KEH-REH or WIN-KEH-REH. Or whatever.
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