Better luck next time
Jul 18, 2021
2 minutes
ANDREW ANTHONY
The weather in London today is miserably grey, wet and, rather fittingly, funereal. Once again, English sporting dreams, briefly disinterred, have been cruelly reburied. This time by the Italians.
For a nation that thinks of itself as sports-obsessed, England is surprisingly unsuccessful at sport.
It hasn’t produced a Wimbledon men’s winner for 85 years (Andy Murray, remember, is a Scot), and as usual,
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