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JOHNLYONS LOOKS BACK!!AT ENGLAND’S DRAMATIC WORLD CUP VICTORY AGAINST COLOMBIA… AND AN OVERDUE SHOOT-OUT SUCCESS

BREAKING THE SPELL

I’D forgotten what it was like – to sit there for 120 minutes and then penalties with a sickening feeling in your stomach, to watch an England game that really mattered.
Those of us of a certain age can remember England losing a World Cup semi-final to West Germany on penalties in 1990. There were Gazza’s tears, Stuart Pearce and Chris Waddle missing from the spot (has Waddle’s ball landed yet?).
Then there was Euro &lsqu...

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