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Plus: back-to-back heavy wins and defeats, and an unsurprising challenger to a Lionel Messi recordMail us with your all of your questions and answers“The top four teams in the Fifa rankings are also the four semi-finalists at the World Cup,” writes Henry Conroy. “Has this happened before?”The men’s rankings have updated after every match of the World Cup, and Fifa surely missed a trick by not asking the great Martin Tyler to shout “And they’re live!” It means the order has changed during the tournament but the makeup of the…
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