Russian media show no mercy for Advocaat and players

Russia’s media have shown little mercy for national manager Dick Advocaat and his players after what they said was a “disgraceful” defeat by Greece to send them out of Euro 2012.

“You broke our hearts,” wrote the Tvoi Den tabloid, accompanying its article with a cartoon of two devils stewing the whole team and the Dutchman Advocaat in a cauldron.

Popular daily Moskovsky Komsomolets printed a short but succinct message to newly returned players on its masthead — “Bastards!!!” — while Sovetsky Sport daily went for a pithy: “Waste of space”.