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CAN THE BELGIANS DELIVER?

by
The Late Tackle Magazine Team
10 April 2014

THE WORLD CUP DERAM LIVES ON
STEVEN JAMES GREEN LOOKS AT BELGIUM'S GOLDEN CROP AND WARNS THEY COULD FAIL AGAIN

Thomas Vermaelen

Vincent Kompany

Every four years, and in some cases every two, English fans are put through the tilt-o-whirl of emotions that comes with a major international tournament. The expectations among themselves, coupled with the hype from the Press always make that brutal cocktail of wide-eyed hope and inevitable defeat an even more difficult blow to absorb.
In the year 2000, as Belgium prepared to co-host the European Championships, expectations on...

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