DID YOU KNOW
  As the European Championship approaches – and thoughts turn to the blessed Germans winning again – it is heartening to remember the 1976 final, which was the first major tournament to be decided by a penalty shootout ... and the Germans lost! Czechoslovakia and West Germany drew 2-2 after extra-time, but the Czechoslovaks won it 5-3 on pens, Antolin Panenka clinching it with a cheeky dink-down-the-middle penalty.

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Sergei + Pat Nevin 

LEAGUE OF NATIONS
A man on the radio recently wrecked my weekend – and, for once, it wa...