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By Frank Dalleres You might have been given the impression that England losing to Iceland – a team ranked below Jordan and Montenegro – in their last match before Euro 2024 was a bad thing. Certainly if you were among the 81,410 people who traipsed to Wembley to watch the Three Lions dish out a mauling only to see them turn into pussycats, you might feel a little cheated. The boos that rang out at full-time on Friday night after Gareth Southgate’s team managed a grand total of one shot on target told their own story. But hang on a minute. As a nation, we are prone to overestimating the nationa…

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