Under James Horan, they might be putting up scores South American in size but if they have a soccer equivalent it is West Germany.
Forgetting their nine second-half wides, they are so very much in the FRG mould: efficient, clinical and extremely ruthless. Their demented work-rate is the rock on which their provincial rivals are perishing.
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