Before we begin, a quick refresher on the events of Euro 2016 qualifying. Wales reached a major tournament for the first time in 58 years. Greece, the 2004 European champions coached by a future World Manager of the Year, lost home and away to the Faroe Islands, a team of carpenters, teachers and electricians, and finished bottom of their group. Albania qualified thanks in part to having a match abandoned following a pitch invasion induced by a low-flying drone. Iceland, a team from a country with a population the size of Enfield, co-coached by a dentist, eliminated Holland, one of the most iconic and aristocratic powers in European football, who suffered the most dramatic humiliation in their history mere months after playing a World Cup…

Source: The Times September 01, 2017 11:03 UTC