Steve McClaren ut av rekka gå

Så skjedde det som måtte skje, Steve McClaren fekk sparken etter at England, kjempars fødeland, ikkje kvalifiserte seg til EM.

Og grunnen? Den er litt artig. Bloggen her har i det siste handla ein del om keepertabbar. Og kva skjedde i går? Paul Robinson vart sett ut av laget og ein annan, Scott Carson, tabba seg ut i staden for. Men det er McClaren som tek ut laget og som må stå skulerett etter smellen.

Dette er første gong sidan 1994 at England ikkje får vere med i eit stort meisterskap. Til EM 1996 trengte dei heller ikkje å kvalifisere seg, det gjorde dei gjennom å arrangere. Det meisterskapet vil vel bli hugsa for ein ting: Ein av dei beste fotballsongane gjennom tidene. "Football's comming home" eller "Three Lions" som den vel heiter.

For oss som vil minnast gode, gamle dagar:

I think it's bad news for the English game
We're not creative enough, and we're not positive enough
It's coming home
It's coming home
It's coming
Football's coming home...
(We'll go on getting bad results, getting bad results..)
It's coming home
It's coming home
It's coming
Football's coming home
It's coming home
It's coming home
It's coming
Football's coming home
It's coming home
It's coming home
It's coming
Football's coming home

Everyone seems to know the score
They've seen it all before
They just know
They're so sure
That England's Gonna throw it away
Gonna blow it away
But I know they can play
'Cause I remember...

Three Lions on a shirt
Jules Rimet still gleaming
Thirty years of hurt
Never stopped me dreaming

So many jokes, so many sneers
But all those oh-so-nears
Wear you down
Through the years
But I still see that tackle by Moore
And when Lineker scored
Bobby belting the ball
And Nobby Dancing

Three Lions on a shirt
Jules Rimet still gleaming
Thirty years of hurt
Never stopped me dreaming

(England have done it, in the last minute of extra time)
(What a save, good old England, England who couldn't play football, England have got it in the bag )
I know that was then
But it could be again

It's coming home
It's coming
Football's coming home
It's coming home
It's coming home
It's coming
Football's coming home
(England have done it)

It's coming home
It's coming home
It's coming
Football's coming home
It's coming home
It's coming home
It's coming
Football's coming home
It's coming home
It's coming home
It's coming
Football's coming home
Three Lions on a shirt
Jules Rimet still gleaming
Thirty years of hurt
Never stopped me dreaming