Chris Dunlavy

A FRESH TAKE ON FOOTBALL

Much mirth was had at the expense of the Independent when a ten-year-old article was unearthed predicting the England team that would win the 2022 World Cup.
Weird and wonderful selections abound, from Nathaniel Chalobah at centre-back to Jordan Ibe on the right wing.
Yet Simon Rice, the author, had a thankless assignment. Harry Kane was a year away from his spectacular emergence at Spurs. Jude Bellingham was still in primary school.
And how was he to know that Wilfried Zaha would declare for the Ivory Coast, or that Jack Wilshere, the man tipped t...