Derek Pringle looks back on England’s last World Cup semi-final 27 years ago and believes the current crop can go one better this year

PRINGLE’s VIEWPOINT

Close, but not close enough: Pakistan were too good for an England side that had lost their spark come the final in 1992
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England’s first World Cup semi-final for 27 years takes place this Thursday in Birmingham, but what of that last one back in 1992? Can parallels even be drawn or predictions made by an event now distorted by the mists of time? Well, of course they can, s...