As expected yet more brutal pish in Tallinn this weekend, as Estonia's search for a goal, let alone a point in a competitive game, stretches to well over a year. Their latest defeat came in a narrow single goal reverse at home to Croatia, who look well placed to qualify from a group bereft of exciting games or much incident. Da Silva (good Croatian surname that) netted a well taken goal just after half an hour to leave the hapless Estonians jousting with Andorra for the group's wooden spoon. I shall be wearing my Estonian jersey on Wednesday as the gallant Balts line up against England but, really, anything other than a comfortable win for the English, and Steve McLaren really does deserve the sack. The few bright notes were the debut performance of young Vladimir Voskoboinikov (I can see that arsehole Jonathan Pearce having great fun with that name during Wednesday night's commentary) and another prolonged string of fine saves from Mart Poom in goal. Slaven Bilic, the Croatian coach, said that Satuday was Estonia's best performance of the group to date: aye, right, maybe if you were a Croatian that is.
The pisspoor Andorrans are visitors to the A. le Coq Stadium in Tallinn in August. A real festival of international incompetence is guaranteed, and I shall be in Tallinn then, doing another language course, so those readers interested (tortoiseshell, Edge and "Aberdeen Mo") can look forward to a verbose account of this game between two of Europe's worst teams sometime around then. It's so bad that if I end up in Estonia and take out citizenship, you may see listed in their no. 9 shirt in a few years time a strangely named player: 9-Steeplejack (Montrose FC).
Euro 2008 so far: Estonia P6 W0 D0 L6 F 0 A 11 Pt 0
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