Every tournament has wild cards;dark horses who exceed everyone’s expectations;Ghana in the 2010 World Cup, Algeria in 2014, Leicester in 2016.
This year my wild horses are Wales and Northern Ireland. What are your thoughts?
I am always confused by this term wild card. I find that it has so many meanings @gashwin shed some light.
i don’t think there can be wild cards in euro 2016 because all finalist got there through qualifiers…
when kenya selects its olympics teams, say in a particular athletics discipline, athletics kenya may enter someone who has been posting very good times as a wild card although he/she did not participate in the qualifying trials…
but the meanings are many as you say but i don’t think it refers to an unlikely winner…
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Dark horses are NEVER KNOWN before the tournament begins. Even the ‘underdog favourites’ almost always get kamuliwad and bundled out like the underdogs that they were initially…
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