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We can't do this without you. So you already know the scene. What you don't know is the time, which is Moscow time

13 minutes past midnight.

You don't know what's playing on my Apple iPhone,

and that's one of these days by the doves

from some cities. Looking out of my left and window, the lights of Moscow are just receding into darkness.

I have to say that with a big pang of sadness.

Moscow is my kind of town.

It really is. Sadness too because the team with whom I'm flying right now haven't given a good accord of themselves.

They haven't managed to realize their potential. It looks

bad going out to a poor team, Russia are a pretty poor football team in the first knockout round but worse than looking bad or feeling

bad is the truth that a very able bunch of footballers who had it within them,

given the right circumstances, given the right team selection,

given a kick start, like an engine sometimes needs a kick start like an engine sometimes needs a kick start before it sparks.

I'm on a kick start this is a group of players that could have won the World Cup. That's something I'll never change my mind about. I'm not going to pretend that they didn't flirt with elimination today and I don't expect many people other than the most

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