This is the second instalment in the England retrospective series. Read the introduction here and part one here.
If England’s dramatic qualification produced a wave of pre-World Cup euphoria, then it certainly didn’t last. Fate would see to that. During a Champions League tie in April 2002, within eight weeks of England’s first game in Japan against Swed…
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