We had hoped to keep a clean sheet and if we had gone in front I think we would have won the match.

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There have also been huge improvements in human development over the past 30 years: access to clean water and life expectancy have gone up.

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They have now gone 20 games without keeping a clean sheet, and their defensive inadequacies go some way to explaining why Pulis chose to field Tommy Mooney as a lone striker.

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