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it would be a well-deserved compensation for all the misfortune in the last 40 years.
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Good grief, I thought this was just an English winge . You mean other nationalities actually believe this as well.
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the English team will show its true colours from now on in the knockout games.
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They wouldn't be the first team to play indifferently at the start and then come good in the final stages. Actually, thinking back to 1966 (sigh!) they didn't have a particularly good game till the semi-finals. Their opening game was a goaless draw against Uruguay and they managed only 1-0 against a ten man Argentinian team in the quarters. I think all their matches were won by a single goal margin except ,of course, the final ( and we now know one of them should not have been a goal .. the infamous "did it cross the line" controversy) .... speaking of which that Russian linesman was the sort of luck that seems to have been lacking in England's games for many a long year. ..... the story goes he wasn't really looking, was asked by the ref if England's goal had crossed the line, reflected briefly on the 20 million Russian dead in WW2 and decided in favour of England.
Didn't Germany start with a defeat in 1974 and then go on to win. ?