The Last Word: FA await their dates with calendar guys

Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for free Sign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter Sign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The date ringed most heavily on 2012 calendars at the Football Association's Wembley headquarters would under normal circumstances be Monday 11 June, when England open their European Championship programme against France in Donetsk. Three weeks tomorrow, Harry Redknapp, popular favourite to become England's next manager this summer, appears in court on two charges of tax evasion. Were either man to be found guilty they could not expect to have any future with England, but for Terry the complication is likely to stretch for sometime yet, as the expectation is that following next month's initial hearing his actual case will not be heard for many weeks. Steve McClaren was, of course, working under Eriksson throughout, and although Robson was not offered the job until halfway through the 1982 finals, he had been scouting future opponents there; it remains the first and last occasion on which a proper succession had been put in place long before the handover, the visionary Greeenwood having insisted in involving all the country's leading managers with various England sides.