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England's Cricket World Cup hopes may have vanished with the spineless performance in Barbados against South Africa, but they are by no means the first from these shores to somehow manage to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Here we take a look of some of our most memorable sporting chokes.
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Lest we forget, it's the national football team that usually has a monopoly on vaguely heroic yet utterly futile failures, inevitably through the medium of being terrible at taking penalty kicks. For Turin '90, read Wembley '96, St Etienne '98, Lisbon '04, and most recently Gelsinkirchen 2006 with a pitiful show of inability to hit the ball straight.