The year whipping boys hit back

It was said that the euros would be devalued. Not the currency, the football.

Yet now it looks as though Michel Platini may have been right. the expansion of the european championships allows space for more outsiders to shine. you might even call 2014 the year of the minnow.

true enough, one or two of the groups have been feeble. england’s group probably deserves investigation by the advertising standards people.