article_snippet: When we meet up, the old players, we are very disappointed
article_snippet: we felt we had a good enough team to win it.
article_snippet: Personally that's where I have my biggest regrets, because that was a few years that it happened, and internally, his team thought we had a great chance of winning.
article_snippet: It is compelling up to a point.
article_snippet: But an 18-year sample should take account of bad luck and the statistical vagaries of football.