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Article: Football: Euro 2004: HURT AND SOL; QUARTER-FINAL: P0RTUGAL 2 ENGLAND 2, FROM LISBON Referee steals Campbell glory again.(Sport)
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- The Mirror (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 25, 2004
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Byline: Martin Lipton CHIEF FOOTBALL WRITER
IT COULD not happen to the same man twice. It could not happen to England again.
But as Sol Campbell was denied glory once again, by a foul that nobody except a Swiss referee could possibly have seen, the nightmare enveloped Sven Goran Eriksson just like it did Bobby Robson, Terry Venables and Glenn Hoddle before him.
In St Etienne six years ago, Campbell rose majestically in the Argentina penalty box to nod England into the last eight of the World Cup, celebrating maniacally in the corner flag even as a ...