World Cup inquests target usual suspects

We’ve a week left and maybe a lot longer for some, as the World Cup post-mortems linger on.

World Cup inquests target usual suspects
Sat, 05 Jul, 2014 - 01:00
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Larry Ryan

You almost envy them that too.

It is a glaring gap in our national experience that Euro 2012 threatened to, but couldn’t quite, fill. We have yet to know true, ignominious World Cup finals failure.

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