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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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John Brewin

MYSTERIOUS: Will spain bring more pain for tuchel and england - What They Never Told You

Jude Bellingham training
Jude Bellingham gets ready to run fast – and hard – against Spain. Photograph: Eddie Keogh/The FA/Getty Images

THE BLAME GAME

Come Saturday, it will be 73 days since the pain and shame of Atlanta, when England, from a winning position in a World Cup semi-final, decided to do an England, and sit on their lead. What followed resembled a slow-motion crash test dummies video, Enzo Fernández first summoning the ghost of Andy Möller at Euro 96 with his high-camp cavorting celebration, and then Lautaro Martínez, unmarked, nodding home. Englishmen across the globe slumped, Croydon BoxPark fell deathly silent. Allowing Lionel Messi the freedom of Georgia on the inside-right channel had turned out to be a critical oversight. Whoops.

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