‘DEATH IS CERTAIN, ITS HOUR IS NOT’ – DENMARK 2012
by Karl Coppack A noble sentiment and one that’s tattooed on Daniel Agger’s back in Latin. Denmark will need that spirit to get them through the Group of Standard Tournament Cliched Term. Long regarded as also-rans, Danish football has seen a definite rise over the...
A BOUNCED CZECH
WHEN I last looked the Czechs were still suffixed and twinned with Slovakians. That was a while back though. In carefree, crazier times - When Bohemians and Moravians partied like it was 1899. In 38 when Hitler hijacked their Sudeten lands. Whence, 30 years on, their...
EURO 2012: Botched Borscht – A Detective Story About Ukraine
HEREAFTER follows the first of a three-part story about Ukraine. There will be some factual information about Ukraine in there but if you want some actual tactical analysis you can do little better than these links from intelligent men....
EURO 2012: CROATIANISM #3: LUKA MODRIC? LET ME COUNT THE WAYS…
CAVEATS are a right pain. Normally you squirrel them away somewhere in a piece, after you’ve said the stuff you mean and before you try and wrap it all up with some kind of smart/meaningful/at-least-conclusive line. I can’t be doing with them, generally. They’re the...
EURO 2012: WALSH ON PORTUGAL: HOW DO YOU WANT YOUR CHICKEN?
AND it had started so well. The brown seats as you walk in – frayed, fretted, frowned upon – give confirmation of their popularity. The indent created by the last person becomes yours; it is half-perturbing, half-welcoming knowing how many have come before you and how...
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‘DEATH IS CERTAIN, ITS HOUR IS NOT’ – DENMARK 2012
by Karl Coppack A noble sentiment and one that’s tattooed on Daniel Agger’s back in Latin. Denmark will need that spirit to get them through the Group of Standard Tournament Cliched Term. Long regarded as also-rans, Danish football has seen a definite rise over the...
A BOUNCED CZECH
WHEN I last looked the Czechs were still suffixed and twinned with Slovakians. That was a while back though. In carefree, crazier times - When Bohemians and Moravians partied like it was 1899. In 38 when Hitler hijacked their Sudeten lands. Whence, 30 years on, their...
EURO 2012: Botched Borscht – A Detective Story About Ukraine
HEREAFTER follows the first of a three-part story about Ukraine. There will be some factual information about Ukraine in there but if you want some actual tactical analysis you can do little better than these links from intelligent men....
EURO 2012: CROATIANISM #3: LUKA MODRIC? LET ME COUNT THE WAYS…
CAVEATS are a right pain. Normally you squirrel them away somewhere in a piece, after you’ve said the stuff you mean and before you try and wrap it all up with some kind of smart/meaningful/at-least-conclusive line. I can’t be doing with them, generally. They’re the...
EURO 2012: WALSH ON PORTUGAL: HOW DO YOU WANT YOUR CHICKEN?
AND it had started so well. The brown seats as you walk in – frayed, fretted, frowned upon – give confirmation of their popularity. The indent created by the last person becomes yours; it is half-perturbing, half-welcoming knowing how many have come before you and how...