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Which is your favourite World Cup?
Maybe it’s the first your remember, the first you attended or the one when you had nothing better to do but watch every minute
As Cat Stevens (and PP Arnold and Rod Stewart and Sheryl Crow) nearly put it, the first cup is the deepest. It’s hard to recreate the magic of the first World Cup you remember, no matter how many times older fans tell you the tournament had more charm back in their day.
Italia 90 was so dull that it led to the new back-pass law but, start talking about great World Cups to fans in their late 30s, and you’ll hear about Gazza, Pavarotti and Totò Schillaci. So what that the tournament has the lowest goals-per-game ratio in World Cup history.
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The local media reaction on the morning after Real Madrid's Champions League final victory over Liverpool struggled to explain a night packed with unexpected drama and startling storylines, but with a very familiar ending: yet another European Cup for the Bernabeu outfit.
"The thirteenth!" said the front page of AS, along with "two huge bombs from Bale, and another from Cristiano -- the first decided the game, and the second threatened to leave."
Buenos días, aquí tenéis la portada de AS del 27 de mayo de
2018 https://t.co/LdXnRGxKyu pic.twitter.com/AjXPfUKXpD—
AS (@diarioas) May
27, 2018
"Eternal champion," said the match report inside....
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Chelsea completely capitulate against Newcastle and are faced with numerous questions heading into the summer.
Chelsea completely capitulate against Newcastle and are faced with numerous questions heading into the summer.
Chelsea completely capitulate against Newcastle and are faced with numerous questions heading into the summer.
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