McClaren: I will survive this week

STEVE McCLAREN looked ahead to the biggest week of his managerial career and insisted: “I will survive.”

By this time next week, McClaren’s England could be out of Euro 2008 and he might well be out of a job.

Indeed, in the worst-case scenario, the roar of the Three Lions will be silenced within 48 hours should Russia defeat Israel in Tel Aviv and Croatia gain a point from their trip to Macedonia.