Very poor World Cup. Possibly the poorest bar Italia 90. From the knock out stages onwards, there were far too many tedious games in which the less bad team rather than the better team won. France, England, Portugal, Holland, Brazil, Spain, and to a lesser extent Germany and Argentina simply didn't perform when the chips were down. And yet the smaller countries weren't able to take advantage. Similarly with the big players - Ronaldinho, Zidane, Henry, Ballack, etc - anonymous in the bigger games, by and large.
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