Note: football is not played on
paper.
The cold dark days of early
December bare witness to some of Europe’s key dates. Friday the 2nd
December saw the draw for the European Championships, 6/7th see the
final group games of this year’s Champions League and the 10th is
‘El Classico’. Spain have been drawn into a challenging group alongside Italy,
Croatia and Republic of Ireland. Del Bosque had lots of nice things to say
about his opponents:
