England Vs Switzerland Preview and Liveblog

September 7th, 2010 | by: Rob | View Comments

“It’s not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love – they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”

Harry Lime (Orson Welles in the Third Man) was wrong about the Swiss. They didn’t invent the cuckoo clock at all. Anyway, while England seems constantly at war with itself, if no-one else, today we come up against those famous neutrals (What makes a man turn neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?) in perhaps the toughest of our qualifying matches for Euro 2012.

We will be covering Live, right here from 7.45 UK Time.

Eyes are obviously going to be on Wayne Rooney. Is he going to bounce back from the current allegations about his private life, or is he going to sink under the pressure? Fingers crossed it is the former, but I can’t help feeling he’s going to heavily criticised unless he puts in a stunning performance.

Another win would complete the bouncing back from the World Cup, and strengthen the mystery of the World Cup. Fingers crossed for a big performance from the boys.