England’s best may miss final shake-up
If, for the attentive reader, there’s more than a hint of deja vu about that opening paragraph, it might just be because, barring the insertion of Milan for Berlin, those were precisely the words which appeared on these pages almost exactly 12 months ago to the day, on the morning after the 2014/15 Champions League draw.
And apart from the inestimable advantage you can’t be sued for self- plagiarism — hell, I’ve tried — recycling a chunk of a year-old article seems entirely justified on the basis (a) the prediction was proved correct and (b) nothing which has happened in the interim to suggest it won’t come true again this time around.
