Re: Qtr Final 3 - England vs Portugal
Lets revisit this article I once posted :omg:
http://www.paklinks.com/gs/showpost.php?p=4163339&postcount=96
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England is enjoying a presumably golden generation of football players.
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England awaited this golden generation of football players even when Rooney was 15 and still throttling kids in Croxteth and other untelevised places.
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England is a genuine World Cup contender, a second wagering choice behind the Brazilian kings-of-kings.
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ENGLAND HASN’T WON A WORLD CUP SINCE 1966.
In fact, England hasn’t reached a final since 1966. Number of semifinal appearances since 1966: one. Number of quarterfinals: three (four now). Round of 16 exits: one. Exits in group play: one. Did not qualify: three. (That must’ve been fun.)
This 40-year drought (add 4 more years now) exists and looms and hovers and taunts and menaces and baffles and saturates and starves and unnerves despite England’s status as the home to the most glamorous sports league — the Premiership — on Earth, a league boasting 102 of the World Cup’s 736 players, 28 more than any other country’s league.
To have reached not even one World Cup final since a 1966 day when nobody on the pitch or in the stands wore any color, just black and white…
There’s a hunger.