The trepidation surrounding the English national team can ease following the Three Lions’ qualification for the 2010 World Cup’s knockout stage. As Bitter and Blue’s Danny Pugsley notes, England’s traveled this road before.
World Cup 2010 Perspectives: England Looks To Draw On Past Tournament Parallels
And a nation can breathe easily once again – for now at least.
Against the backdrop of unrest and uncertainty though, England – as they are somehow able to do at World Cup time – found a way to come through. A change of personnel (if not necessarily tactics) and approach good enough to overcome a plucky, if limited Slovenia side.
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