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‘It’s going to be a hard task for England to win the World Cup – we have a chance like everyone else, but every player has got to be on it, you can’t afford to carry anybody’ Paul Gascoigne assesses England’s World Cup chances

Paul Gascoigne.

England will head stateside next summer looking to end what will then be 60 years of hurt at the 2026 World Cup.

No Three Lions side has come close to ending this drought that Sir Bobby Robson’s Italia 90 squad, who lost a semi-final penalty shootout to West Germany on an evening that has gone down in England folklore.

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