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Old 10-01-2007, 06:28 PM   #102 (permalink)
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This team wasn't the best to go down there in 20 years. It was the best team to go down there in 20 years minus a third of its players. There's a difference.
To suggest that England's team in 1986\87 was better than some teams sent in the 1990s would be pretty crazy - the team of 1986\87 was dubbed "the worst England team ever to tour" and it's results 1986-1989 bear this out.
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