Men Will Be Made, Men Will Be Broken, All We Are Required to Do Is Watch...

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AUSTRALIAN wisdom might be needed to settle English nerves when the bell tolls today. Pressure, remarked the great Keith Miller, a World War II fighter pilot, was seeing a Messerschmitt on your tail.

The alarm goes, the eyes open, and 11 men in a hotel are suspended between immortality and another near-miss - the default outcome for English football since Italia 90.

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Men Will Be Made, Men Will Be Broken, All We Are Required to Do Is Watch...

For anyone under 40, the only comparable moment is England's rugby XV leaving their beachfront hotel in Manly two autumns ago for a reckoning with the same Australian foe.

The memory is as sharp as a reef.

Manly-shire, they should have called Clive Woodward's camp as barrel c...

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