Episode 2994: Spain Show Europe How To Play (Again), England’s Years Of Hurt: 58
How should we play this game? We turn and ask Spain and once more they show and tell. Tonight they won their fourth European Championship, playing in a manner befitting of champions. To Iniesta, Xavi, Pique, Busquets, Alonso and Alba now add Rodri, Laporte, Cucurella, Yamal and Williams.
By the time the World Cup comes around England will have been waiting, expecting, hoping to win a men’s football tournament for 60 years. Sixty. It’s quite incredible.
As he has done all summer long Ken dials in from the stadium after full-time joined by Miguel Delaney of The Independent and Jack Pitt-Brooke of The Athletic while we also chat to our Basque correspondent Beñat Gutierrez and ask, given the Basque heavy make-up of this Spanish side are the people of Bilbao dancing in the streets..?
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Ken, Richie and Branno run the rule over Heimir Hallgrímsson’s first press conference today
?Have we got the right man for the job?
?What does this say about Marc Canham’s hazy recruitment timeline?
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