Mcclaren Looking for Right Result in Zagreb As Well As Tallinn
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IN ONE year and five days, European football fans can take a ruminative bite out of a Toblerone, whistle Edelweiss and settle down to the European Championship finals. In Austria, judging by their recent results, we will have the happy prospect of a host nation substantially weaker than most of the teams that fail to qualify.
Wednesday's latest round of qualifiers before European footballers head for the costas (or in some unfortunate cases, straight to the early rounds of the Intertoto Cup) is remarkably short on matches between sides we might identify as real powers. It is indicative of the fragmentation of the continent that so many marginal or freshly-minted nations are now cast as the potential power-brokers in tight qualifying groups. Of all the ties, the only match that seems to match two relatively strong sides sees Croatia hosting Russia. This, as much as England's own banana-skin-lined trip to Tallinn, will have a crucial bearing on Steve McClaren's immediate future.See the full content of this document
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Mcclaren Looking for Right Result in Zagreb As Well As Tallinn
From the perspective of the England manager, with two qualifying places still up for grabs, he can ill-afford to see the Croatians all but engrave their name on one of them wit...
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