Grant Holt was a footballer for Norwich City FC. One season, he decided to score seventeen for his goals in the hopes of playing for England. When mean old manager Roy Hodgson refused to take him along for the team’s adventure in Poland/Ukraine, Holt decided to hand in his transfer request to the club. The

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The Story of Grant Holt

Euro 2012 kicks-off in just a matter of weeks and in anticipation The Independent is running down the key factors and people to keep an eye on in Poland and Ukraine this summer.

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Euro 2012 files: The tricksters and dribblers

MADRID (Reuters) – Spain shook off the tag of inveterate also-rans to triumph at Euro 2008 and winning a first World Cup two years later secured them undisputed status as the team to beat in international soccer. However they will have to re-write soccer’s record books if they are to keep their European title in Poland and Ukraine this summer. No country has ever retained the Henri Delauney …

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Euro 2012 – Spain at ease with status as team to beat

Having reversed his decision to retire, Paul Scholes made his Manchester United FC comeback as the Red Devils beat holders Manchester City FC 3-2 in a relentless FA Cup third round tie.

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United end ten-man Manchester City’s FA Cup defence

Marco Reus will join Borussia Dortmund on a five-year deal at the end of the season after the club triggered a €17.5 million release clause in his VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach contract.

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Reus agrees to join Dortmund at the end of the season

If the Euro 2012 started tomorrow, tens of thousands of visitors from all over the world would arrive in Kyiv. Most of them will come to the heart of modern-day Ukraine: Maidan Nezalezhnosti or Independence Square.

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Euro 2012: Maidan of hate?