Much better than packing the midfield and waiting for the inevitable defeat.
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Would pundits blame the forwards for the inevitable defeat?
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The ferocity of the current fighting will be nothing though, compared with what comes after the inevitable defeat.
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That's mainly because there's a dispiriting whiff of inevitable defeat to the narrative.
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Then, next morning after the inevitable defeat, the embarrassment that slowly seeped in as the enormity of the defeat struck home.
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