Don't jinx it, but this year England could actually win the World Cup ✒️Simon_Kelner for ipaperviews
And so, on the eve of England’s quarter-final against France in Qatar, a sense of proportion holds sway. There are reasons for this – that it is in winter, that it is in Qatar, and that we now have the competing attractions of the Christmas period – but chief among them can be encapsulated in a scene from the film, in which the character played by John Cleese, resigned to his fate, says: “It’s not the despair. I can take the despair. It’s the hope I can’t stand.
Ever since the World Cup triumph of 1966, English football fans have had not only 56 years of hurt, but 56 years of hope, too. For more than half a century we’ve gone into tournaments with our expectations stoked and our belief that football was “coming home” unshakeable.
We’ve had our share of iffy leaders in recent times, but Southgate is, by contrast, dignified and responsible. He has, for sure,
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