England boss Roy Hodgson has admitted it was too much to demand Wayne Rooney would win Euro 2012 on his own – but denied the Manchester United forward was not fit enough to do himself justice.

I ARRIVED in Wellington with the Irish team on Monday morning to be greeted by gale force winds and torrential rain.

“CHELSEA are almost out of the Champions’ League,” said the man on the television news late on Wednesday night, making it sound like their imminent exit from the competition is a mere technicality, a matter of formal ratification in the Nou Camp.

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