The unhappy manager
Stefan Stern on the management lessons of England’s failed campaign for the European Championships
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An in-depth look at the football and business that combine to create one of the world’s most successful sporting events
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Video: From pin-up to pinstripe
Click here to watch a video of Gideon Rachman, chief foreign affairs columnist, in conversation with Michel Platini
The big prize for fans and businesses
The European Championship is one of the world’s biggest sporting events. More exciting and less predictable than the World Cup, it offers fans a glorious spectacle and businesses a potentially lucrative opportunity
Counting the euros
Uefa has shown increasingly shrewd management of the commercial aspect of the European Championship
Man on a mission
Gideon Rachman talks to Michel Platini, president of Uefa and former French football star, about the relationship between business and football
Hosts face a difficult goal
Switzerland and Austria are used to tourists but co-hosting Euro 2008 will be a formidable challenge
Hard road to the final
The story of the qualifying rounds was the surprising run of Scotland and Northern Ireland – and the failure of England
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Analysis and comment
Beautiful game
One great attraction of the European Championship is that any team has a legitimate chance to win
Long shot for the Swiss
The Swiss team have worked hard and the co-hosts have a chance of winning next year’s tournament
Austria likely to struggle
Austrian football has fallen into such decline that there was even a move to pull the nation out of Euro 2008
In-depth
How to organise a championship
David Owen speaks to the tournament directors from Austria and Switzerland
Romania’s redemption
Under Victor Piturca, Romania has forged a new spirit and a new tactical discipline
Eastern promise
Uefa’s decision to hold Euro 2012 in Poland and Ukraine is a symbol of the changing relationship between east and west
A kick out of technology
Boots with tubes of powdered tungsten and a ball with a layer of nitrogen-expanded foam are just some of the new ideas that sports equipment makers have engineered to help footballers play better
Greece’s Euro shock
The 2004 competition had possibly the most unlikely outcome in football history
