Don’t be the favourite!

I have been trying to remember as far as my first World Cup memories go back, if the big favourite before each World Cup actually won the competition. Let's see if we can detect a trend here:

1974: The huge favourite before and during the German World Cup was Holland. Result: they were beaten 2 1 by Germany in the final.

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