Friday, June 11, 2004 AD
A far-off country of which we know nothing
On the eve of the Euro 2004 football tournament - and one for Bunnie Diehl's Prague god-daughter, perhaps - from Euro 96, here's legendary football commentator John Motson's razor-sharp historico-political analysis of the Czech Republic squad's background:
"The Velvet Revolution between the Czechs and Slovaks doesn't affect the fact most of the Czech Republic's players come from the old Czechoslovakia."Awesome stuff; it contains multitudes.
