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KICKING THE HABIT

y reaching the final of this year’s Euros Gareth Southgate’s England have laid the ghosts of past tournaments to rest. Yet on the path to that game the retired goalkeeper Peter Shilton could be found on television wishing, not for the first time, that video assistant referees had been around in 1986, when a certain 165cm-tall Argentinian playmaker outjumped him to slyly palm the ball into the net

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