Sentences with phrase «decades of underachievement»

After decades of underachievement following a UEFA European Championship triumph on home soil in 1964, Spain have become world football's dominant force.

In terms of silverware, those nine years were as good as it has got for Les Dogues as just two years after their second Ligue 1 success in 1954, they were relegated to Ligue 2, a catastrophe that led to decades of underachievement on the pitch and disappointment in the stands.

It's one thing for a minnow to live a fairy - tale dream and make it to the big show; it's quite another when you've endured nearly three decades of underachievement.

The Welsh Conservatives said the results marked a «decade of underachievement» and represented a «scandal of monumental proportions».

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Plenty of underachievement the last decade.