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The Holland players react to the disappointment of failing to qualify for their second major football tournament in a row. Photograph: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images

The Decline of Holland’s Football Team: Doomed by Total Obsession with Past

by Priya Ramesh | Oct 20, 2017 | Sports

London — In Graham Swift’s novel Waterland his narrator, a history teacher going through a mid-life crisis, says: “And where history does not undermine and set traps for itself in such an openly perverse way, it creates this insidious longing to revert. It begets this...

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The Decline of Holland’s Football Team: Doomed by Total Obsession with Past

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