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June 19, 2014 05:29 am GMT

World Cup Day 7: Down and Out in Rio and Manaus

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Wednesday in Brazil saw all the highs and lows we've come to expect from World Cup football: another three fantastic games; another three high scores that keeps the goal average of the 2014 tournament up where it hasn't been since the 1950s. But it also saw the effective ejection of two teams we expected to lose early — Australia and Cameroon — and one we didn't. One that was on the top of the world four short years ago

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Spain's fall from grace was so swift, and so total, that we have to start considering whether there is such a thing as the curse of winning a World Cup. Italy, winners in 2006, suffered equally devastating losses at the group stage in 2010. France won in 1998; by 2002, Les Bleus were a fractious shell of their former selves, easily dispatched in what was viewed as a national disgrace Read more...

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