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Stop treating World Cup warm-ups like geopolitical theatre
Two dramatic comebacks on the same July evening produced the wrong kind of coverage. Results in friendlies and group games are not a verdict on national character.
This publication noted on the wire at the time that both results were filed by established outlets. The mistake was not the filing; it was the framing the filings were then pressed into. Reporting the match and interpreting it are different jobs, and the modern football press has quietly let them collapse into one.
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