I KEEP hearing that it is the first time since 1958 that England has failed to proceed beyond the initial round of the final stages of the World Cup but am I right in thinking that one year, possibly when it was held in the US, we did not even make it that far.

Maybe not and who cares anyway?

DAVID DIMENT, Riverside Court, Oxford

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