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As has been touched upon on this site before, timing is one of the most important factors in football. As an example, imagine the World Cup’s four year cycle was one year earlier: when Luiz Felipe Scolari took over Brazil in June 2001, they were going through their worst ever qualification campaign and, although he managed to turn them around, they made it to South Korea and Japan with just three points to spare. England, on the other hand, were just a few months aways from their 5-1 demolition of Germany. More crucially however, a 2001 World Cup would come before David Beckham’s metatarsal injury, Steven Gerrard’s groin problems that saw him pull up in the last game of the 2001-02 season (although his replacement Nicky **** was one of England’s stand-out performers), and Gary Neville’s broken foot. Ignoring the quite frankly ridiculous influence of Michael Ballack and Oliver Kahn on Germany, England and Brazil were the only good teams at the 2002 World Cup, and a year before Brazil had been awful while England had been even better. A year earlier and England may have finally put to bed the demons that had built up over decades without a [...]
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