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Evening Standard
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Dom Smith

England have a huge opportunity in World Cup grudge match that Thomas Tuchel must take

England have forged historic rivalries with plenty of nations since their first official match, 154 years ago.

Scotland were the opponents on that November day in 1872 and the Auld Enemy have been England’s most familiar foes in the decades since. Some fierce match-ups have come and gone, like with Hungary, whose Mighty Magyars, led by Ferenc Puskas, had the beating of England in the 1950s but who have never been the same since.

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