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There’s nothing like an exciting game, and England v North Macedonia is nothing like an exciting game. It may, in and of itself, be acceptable, given bad football is better than good most other stuff – interacting with other people, say – but in the general scheme of things, it is roughly as appealing as Nadine Dorries and Joe Rogan discussing F1 to a jazz soundtrack in Milton Keynes.
May I be one of 1,057 pedants to point out that the ‘disgrace of Gijón’ was not, as you wrote, a ‘mutually beneficial goalless draw’ (Friday’s Memory Lane, full email edition), but rather a 1-0 win for the Germans, which made the cheating all the more blatant, since the Austrians didn’t even make a token attempt at equalising. One of the low points in German football history, overshadowed shortly after by that Schumacher assault on Battiston” – Ingo Herzke (and 1,056 others).
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