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(Reuters) - Belgium defender and Manchester City skipper Vincent Kompany has described England's exit from the European Championship at the hands of Iceland as a collective failure that defied rational explanation.
"I am shocked," Kompany, who missed the tournament with a thigh injury, wrote in his column in The Times on Wednesday. "Looking from the outside, I honestly can’t work out how it happened."
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