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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Daniel Harris

Disquieting England competence and insouciant genius from France

No biggie, just the world champions to come.
No biggie, just the world champions to come. Photograph: Michael Regan/Fifa/Getty Images

ENGLAND. FRANCE. IT’S ON

Good moaning. We were just p!ssing boy when we realised we’d gone almost 30 seconds without enjoying a “from the England camp” update. By way of penance, we have drenched ourselves in stale beer, eaten a packet of Lambert & Butler and – most painfully of all – pretended to like football, in order to recreate that special Boxpark atmosphere in the comfort of our own boxroom. That’ll show those French, what with their good food, fine wine, suave behaviour, easy adult calisthenics, and refusal to remain supine when persecuted by a cruel and corrupt government.

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