RealClearSports: England Can't 'Wait 'Til Next Year'
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By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.comWIMBLEDON, England -- The pain isn't going away soon. This isn't Brooklyn in the 1940s. You can't say, "Wait ‘til next year.'' The next World Cup is four years away, four years for England to stew and grumble and wallow in the self-pity for which the English are famous.
"It's English custom,'' wrote Simon Barnes in
The Times, "to seek someone to blame.''
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