Maple Leafs have painful similarities to England's World Cup history

A video gaining steam on social media this week makes a very good point: The Toronto Maple Leafs are a whole lot like the England men's national football team.England is in the World Cup semifinals this week, trying to prove that comparison wrong, but as things stand, there's a lot aligned.It starts with the simple matter of years. England last won the World Cup, their only title in international football's largest competition, in 1966.The Maple Leafs last won the Stanley Cup in 1967.MORE: How a 3-team Dylan Larkin, Jason Robertson trade could workEngland popularly uses the phrase "It's coming home" to describe their plans to bring the World Cup trophy back to them, but it hasn't happened since. Maple Leafs fans use phrases like "our year" and "plan the parade."They've each got serious pai