Euro 2012: England analysis would sound slicker if they cut back Verve

In PG Wodehouse's day they knew how to react when someone played a hackneyed, over-sentimental dirge – they hurled rotten fruitI wonder if we are the new Greece. Not economically, obviously – that's possibly for later – but in a football sense. You may remember the 100-1 outsiders winning the European Championship in 2004, without conceding a single goal in the knock-out stages, and being accused of anti-football in the process. The coach, the arch-pragmatist Otto Rehagel, said he played ...

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