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Article: Terry talks up morale but it's Estonia or bust for McClaren ; ROAD TO EURO 2008 ++ Three points from a tricky trip to Tallinn is the only option for England - and their performance at the new Wembley gives grounds for optimism
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- The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 3, 2007
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The cruellest month, according to TS Eliot, is April. For
managers of the England football team it tends to be every other
June, that waste land of dead dreams. Even so, they normally survive
the first year, so this Wednesday's D-Day in Estonia has arrived a
little early for Steve McClaren.
Graham Taylor, the most reviled of his predecessors, recalled
last week that he was given two whole years before the bullets and
vegetables began to fly. But Taylor, it is often forgotten, went
through the whole of his first season unbeaten and, after the
second, which concluded ingloriously at Euro 92, England had still
lost only two matches out of 24; McClaren equalled that in seven
games.
One of the ...