England have been down this bottle-strewn road before and one day soon the authorities are going to put up a no-entry sign. It seems like only yesterday that FA officials were gathered in the bunker of the hotel adjoining England’s at Euro 2008, where they were pleading with the media to help tell rioting supporters that the national team were on the verge of being thrown out of the tournament by Uefa. It is fair to say that England have previous. England brought shame in 1980 in Turin, across West Germany at Euro 88, in Malmo and Stockholm during Euro 92. They caused trouble in Trafalgar Square after England went out of Euro 96, again in Euro 2000 in Charleroi and Brussels, then at Euro…

Source: The Times June 06, 2019 11:03 UTC