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JOSEPH PEARSON

Last updated 12:53, Jun 18 2018

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Former England captain Chris Robshaw despairs as their Rugby World Cup debate on home territory fell apart.

It's that time again. That time when apoplectic euphoria skyrockets. That time when punch-drunk butterflies in your stomach turn to boozed-up bulls in a china shop. That time that traditionally ends in sulking and a revolting assurance that tomorrow's object won't rise.

England's excellent footballers have been packed on to a oppulance flight carrying a baggage of millions of insane English fans still harbouring an unhinged wish that can't be explained in words; a dainty wish to during least be alive when (if) England turn world champions for a first time given Bobby Moore carried the Jules Rimet Trophy in 1966.

The Three Lions are in Russia for a 2018 Fifa World Cup but but the common demented expectations of prior tournaments, and for good reason, when we peek behind and uncover what's happened when English sides have competed on a global theatre in a last decade.

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Bobby Moore, England's captain of their final side to win a Fifa World Cup, in 1966.

Stuff's resident English sports reporter Joseph Pearson recounts his possess sporting traumas from following England's decade of disasters, fluctuating the narcotic pain to miserable World Cup campaigns in other codes.

2008 WORLD CUP IN AUSTRALIA (Rugby League)

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Sam Perrett scoring opposite England in New Zealand's semi-final feat in Brisbane.

The celebration was over after… losing 32-22 to New Zealand in a semifinals after winning only one diversion (32-22 opposite Papua New Guinea) from four, that included a awful 52-4 better to Australia in a group stages.

Any positives? (because we never stop believing)... Australia didn't win a thing interjection to a Kiwis. Good on ya, fullas. 

2010 WORLD CUP IN SOUTH AFRICA (Football)

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Wayne Rooney appealing to Uruguayan giant Mauricio Espinosa after Frank Lampard's shot that crossed a line wasn't awarded as a goal.

The celebration was over after… removing absolutely mullered 4-1 by Germany in a round of 16 after scraping by a organisation which a wretched S*n newspaper headlined EASY. E was for England. A was for Algeria (0-0). S was for Slovenia (1-0) and Y was for Yanks (1-1). G stood for Germany and go home.

Any positives? (because we never stop believing)... Not awarding Frank Lampard's idea against a Germans maybe done Fifa finally realize that goal-line record would be handy. It crossed a line as distant as David Warner's sledging.

READ MORE:* World Cup profiles: England* Stuff's World Cup predictions* Printable wallchart, full schedule

2011 WORLD CUP IN INDIA/SRI LANKA (Cricket)

The celebration was over after… a abrasive 10-wicket better to Sri Lanka in a quarterfinals, that was good deserved after outrageous pool theatre defeats to Ireland and Bangladesh.

Any positives? (because we never stop believing)... Nobody unequivocally cared since England's exam team had only walloped Australia in Australia to win a Ashes down under for a first time in 24 years.

2011 WORLD CUP IN NEW ZEALAND (Rugby)

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England's Simon Shaw looks on as France's joyous players applaud their quarter-final feat at Eden Park in 2011.

The celebration was over after… a 19-12 quarterfinal better to France after a month of debate dominated by headlines of dipsomaniac English players tossing dwarfs in Queenstown, afterwards making grave apologies for inappropriate comments done to a womanlike hotel worker, and Manu Tuilagi jumping off a packet in Auckland gulf and removing fined after he was incarcerated by police.

Any positives? (because we never stop believing)... I'm certain the gents had a ridicule good time in Queenstown.

2013 WORLD CUP IN ENGLAND/FRANCE/IRELAND/WALES (Rugby League)

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Shaun Johnson pennyless English hearts with his last-gasp try during Wembley in 2013.

The party was over after… Shaun Johnson's distressing last-gasp try that snatched New Zealand a thespian 20-18 feat in a semifinal during Wembley.

Any positives? (because we never stop believing)... Stadiums around England were packaged out during a 13-man code's many commercially successful tournament to date and Old Trafford hosted a universe record throng of 74,468 for a final in Manchester.

2014 WORLD CUP IN BRAZIL (Football)

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Luis Suarez finished England's World Cup hopes during the final Fifa World Cup.

The celebration was over after… organisation stage defeats to Italy and Uruguay (both 2-1) in the opening dual matches and an impossibly dull 0-0 outcome against Costa Rica afterwards wrapped adult another feeble failure. This World Cup tour was like being thrown out of a nightclub for not immoderate an alcoholic splash because we didn't wish to party.

Any positives? (because we never stop believing)... An early exit meant we could indeed sit back, relax, and suffer what was an glorious tournament but having to humour the trauma of examination another sore England game.

2015 WORLD CUP IN AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND (Cricket)

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Bangladesh's Takin Ahmed celebrates an English wicket as they dump England out of a last Cricket World Cup.

The celebration was over after… yet another awful better to Bangladesh in pool play as England unsuccessful to even strech the quarterfinals after also removing trounced by Australia, New Zealand and Sri Lanka.

Any positives? (because we never stop believing)... A contest down underneath in February/March meant observation was mostly restricted to peeping by blankets in a wee hours during the finish of a satirical British winter, so we had an forgive to not watch another meltdown. If you're not watching, it's not happening. Am we right?

2015 WORLD CUP IN ENGLAND (Rugby)

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England crashed out in a pool stages of a last Rugby World Cup after defeats to Wales and Australia during Twickenham.

The celebration was over after… defeats to Wales and Australia during Twickenham in pool play as England catastrophically crashed out of their possess World Cup before a knockout stages.

Any positives? (because we never stop believing)... No.

*Honourable mention… Euro 2016: England 1-2 Iceland

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Iceland players applaud as England's fall in fear following their overwhelming exit from Euro 2016.

Losing to Iceland (population around 330,000, who were well eminent for fishing not football in a minds of English fans) made England's footballers the laughing batch of a sporting world. The better in a round of 16 strife in Nice, France, was definitely embarrassing and only a wheeze of Iceland will send an ice cold shudder down a spine of even a most robust English football fan for generations.

2017 WORLD CUP IN AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND/PAPUA NEW GUINEA (Rugby League)

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Jermaine McGillvary looking unhappy after England's 6-0 detriment to a Kangaroos in final year's Rugby League World Cup final.

The celebration was over after… losing a final 6-0 to Australia after squeezing past Tonga 20-18 before some-more than 30,000 vivacious Tongan fans in a semifinal during Mt Smart.

Any positives? (because we never stop believing)... Forget it's a Rugby League World Cup, in that England are guaranteed to during least strech the final four, and forget that Australia won (again); England done the final!

2018 WORLD CUP IN RUSSIA (Football)

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Can England equivocate the horrors of a last decade in Russia?

This believer's prediction... Quarterfinals. England not advancing from a organisation with Belgium, Panama and Tunisia would be a seismic disaster to compare losing to Iceland during Euro 2016. Should they progress, England's fresh squad would equivocate the tournament's large boys until a last eight, though the dizzying heights of a semifinal would certainly be a apart dream. Surely?

England's World Cup fixtures (Group G)- Tunisia on Jun 19 during 6am (NZ time)- Panama on Jun 25 during 12am- Belgium on Jun 29 during 6am​

AT A GLANCE

England's World Cup horrors given 2008- 2008 (league): lost 32-22 to New Zealand in semifinals- 2010 (football): lost 4-1 to Germany in a round of 16- 2011 (cricket): lost by 10 wickets to Sri Lanka in quarterfinals- 2011 (rugby): lost 19-12 to France in quarterfinals- 2013 (league): lost 20-18 to New Zealand in semifinals- 2014 (football): knocked out in organisation stages- 2015 (cricket): knocked out in pool stages- 2015 (rugby): knocked out in pool stages- 2017 (league): lost 6-0 to Australia in a final- 2018 (football): to be revealed...

 - Stuff

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