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Rome Wasn't Built in a Day, Chapter A: Something Which All True Sportsmen Deplore

Rome Wasn't Built in a Day, Chapter A: Something Which All True Sportsmen Deplore

It's time for the third chapter of Rome Wasn't Built in a Day, and this week we're taking the England national team from their formation up to the start of WW2.

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Ian King
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This book is made up of two stories, which are deeply intersected but also quite separate; the club game and the national game. Chapters that are numbered are broadly about the game, while chapters primarily about the England international team are lettered. I tried not to be over-zealous about it, though. This chapter zips through England, the home nations’ tendency to pick a fight with FIFA at just about any opportunity, and how the England team ended up giving a Nazi salute on a pitch in Berlin in front of 120,000 Germans, among other things.

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