What would happen if…
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- Written by Ian Shine
Fernando Torres were forced to play in a Stetson hat?
There were a general election every time a new England manager were required?
Mick McCarthy got lost in a hall of mirrors?
With the end of the football season Britain’s alcohol intake is said to drop by 37%.*
This clear-headedness, combined with the extra free time that absence of football creates, means that fat 30-somethings from Rotherham to Rochdale, Coventry to Colchester and Nottingham to Newcastle…well, probably not Newcastle…are able to come up with all sorts of questions about their beloved game.
Alas the season is over and the barren terrain of a major tournament-less summer (the Mickey Mouse curtain raising Confederations Cup doesn’t count) lies before us. I can console myself with the combination of facts that firstly, England virtually guaranteed their place at the World Cup next year with a couple of decent performances (against very meagre opposition, but you can only kick sand in the face of the seven stone weakling put in front of you and both Kazakhstan & Andorra were duffed and dispatched with relative aplomb) and secondly, in lieu of fact number one, I have booked my accommodation in South Africa!
While Real Madrid have made the biggest splashes in the transfer market this summer with Ronaldo and Kaka joining their ranks, Bruno Alves is still looking to make a little ripple of his own.
After England's 4-0 win away at Kazakhstan on Saturday and the draw that followed it later that evening between nearest group rivals Croatia and Ukraine,