It’s all George Bush’s fault.
If we had not invaded Iraq, the Iraqi national team would have been filled with men who knew what failure would lead to.
A visit to Uday’s torture chambers.
You beat me to it, few remember Uday’s torture of Iraqi soccer players after past World Cup or Asian Cup failures. I was just reviewing some of the news articles, his pastimes included urinating on them and whipping them, and then dunking them in raw sewage to insure their wounds would become infected.
Undoubtedly, they played much better without the stress of worrying what their fate would be if they lost.