We’ve found almost nothing to moan about | World Cup Fiver

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The Fiver bloody loves the World Cup. Nothing else allows such wall-to-wall indulgence of our greatest passion: moaning about how much better things were in the old days. Every time some “twentysomething” gets excited about a great goal, we brusquely inform them they should see Algeria’s first against Chile in 1982 before inflicting their extreme views on others. When an “expert” hails the World Cup as the best ever before the end of the group stages, we wait for the knockout stages and smile smugly as match after match goes to penalties following a sterile 0-0 draw.

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