Two round 14 games gave a reminder that one half of dominance does not always cut the mustard, nor that one poor half means game over
Sport loves a good cliche. Often laughable and always trite, they are also steeped in truth. It is why a player from any walk of life can stare down the barrel of a camera and say with unflinching candour that although he came to play and gave 110%, the other team just wanted it more. But of all the cliches sport is prone to proliferate, one stands alone as a beacon of luminous self-evidence: it’s a game of two halves.
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