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England Finally Gets Back to Winning Ways

Martin Samuel, Daily Mail - September 4, 2010

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Having failed to play like England at the World Cup, at least Fabio Capello’s team looked like England again at Wembley last night: and in more ways than one.

The win was England’s most emphatic in 2010, the performance was the high point of Fabio Capello’s year, and it was achieved in colours that have come to represent this country’s football identity — white shirts, blue shorts, white socks.

Gone was that ghastly all-white PE kit, and gone too the insipid displays of the men within it.Read Full Article »

Related Topics: World Cup 2010, Soccer, england

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