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Date: 20 June 2008 12:25:19
With Euro 2008 at the half way point we are already seeing excuses fro teams that have been knocked out.
French coach Raymond Domenech knows exactly why his side failed so miserably at Euro 2008. It was the team's hotel. "The layout of the hotel was all wrong," he said. "It was in a kind of cul-de-sac with only one route in and out. Plus, there were no proper directives from the Swiss about gatherings of people watching us eat." (Daily Express)
However my favourite story is this one:
Switzerland's railway staff will now wear yellow vests instead of orange ones after Dutch fans followed a worker onto the tracks as they thought he was a football fan. (Daily Telegraph)
History Today:
1389 : Ottoman sultan Murad I defeats the Serbs at the Battle of Kosovo, a key event in Serbian history and the reason that they don't want modern Kosovo to be independent.
1756 : Nawab of Bengal - Siraj Ud Daulah - omprisons 146 Europeans in the "Black Hole of Calcutta. Only 23 survive.
1837 : Princess Victoria becomes queen, following the death of her uncle King William IV - the "Sailor King".
1984 : O levels are replaced by GCSE exams in a major shake up of the education system.