Managing England at a glamorous international tournament is the dream of many a football manager and Roy Hogdson is the latest to be bestowed with the prestigious honour at this summers’ Euro 2012 Championships. Another blessed with leading the Three Lions onto the global frontier in the past was Kevin Keegan who believes the current crop have prepared sufficiently enough for success despite today’s evening match with Sweden representing just the fourth game of Hodgson’s new found tenure.
“He (Roy) had three or four weeks and as we’ve said the expectation level isn’t manic, he’s picked his squad, rightly or wrongly, and he will be looking forward to working with them and building a siege mentality. Not because people hate us, but because he needs to say, whatever people think or say about us, we are in charge of our own destinies. If we win football matches, if we play well and get together, we can win this. You can look at team like Denmark who didn’t even qualify in 1992, got in late in the day and won it. There are examples of teams that have been worst prepared than we are, with less time than us and done very well, excellent in fact.”
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