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How Eriksson was blinded by Beckham | Football - Times Online
initially without Wayne Rooney, made a truly wretched start to the group qualifiers at the 2006 World Cup, labouring to beat first Paraguay and then the remarkable Trinidad and Tobago team, whose band of largely obscure players, reinforced by aninexorably settling for penalties. With their dismal record it was a mystery that England saw their salvation in the Russian roulette of the shoot-out. This time, having apparently practised for this in training, they contrived to miss three of their four
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