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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Michael Butler

Canada see off South Africa but fail to quench our endless World Cup thirst

Jesse Marsch in the middle of a huddle with his Canada players
Jesse Marsch: not the best manager at the GWC, but maybe the best at inspirational huddles. Photograph: Marcio Sanchez/AP

OPEN WIDE FOR SOME (MORE) SOCCER

Following the bumper end to the record-breaking group stage in which a whopping 16 Geopolitics World Cup matches were completed over 54 hours, Football Daily has now gone – at the time of writing – nearly 36 hours with just one single GWC match for company and is now experiencing acute withdrawal symptoms; a miserable glimpse into our post-GWC future in which “colleagues”, “families” and “the growing pile of crockery in the sink” will eventually have to be acknowledged and addressed with all the gusto of Steve Bruce at a press conference.

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