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The worst World Cup winners

If 'The Theory of Everything' wins any kind of Oscar, Frank the Beef aka Frank LeBoeuf, will become the first person to act in an Oscar-winning movie and play in a winning World Cup final. Is there anyone less deserving? No, I'm being mean. LeBouef bugged me with his "cool Frenchman on the King's Road" column when he was at Chelsea, but he wasn't a terrible defender, did a good job when he filled in for the suspended Laurent Blanc in the 98 final, and is perfectly serviceable in his brief scene as a Swiss doctor in 'The Theory of Everything'. Good luck to him. He could be the next Eric Cantona. But it got me thinking - who are the worst footballers to have won World Cups? The answer, disappointingly, is that there are not all that many bad footballers who have played on World Cup winning teams [I'm only going back to 1990. I know a lot of the 86 Argentinians were meant to be a bit dodgy and carried by Maradona, but I really can't remember