The satirical magazine Private Eye is famous for the waspish speech-bubble jokes on its covers. Its latest is the equivalent of scoring an open goal. There’s a picture of the England team getting ready to fly off to the European Football Championships, with one of them saying “we’ll be out of Europe in time”.The Euros championship ends on July 10. The UK’s referendum on the EU is on June 23. I am in the interesting position of covering both for BBC World News, and who knows what UK and European politics will look like by the time the final kicks off?The England football team is in many ways a soft target. Most supporters have taken the long road from expectation and disappointment to lower expectation and disappointment. For the past 20 years the players have been on the sun loungers with their wives and children before anyone tuned in to the semifinals of the World Cup or the Euros.So the story of the England team has become less interesting. A diet of unrelentingly mediocre quarte...
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