Spain may well feel that Robert Louis Stevenson had it wrong back in 1881 when he penned his most famous phrase, that “To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.”
Sometimes, for example this time, it’s even better to arrive than it is to travel hopefully.
The UEFA EURO holders left Spain on Wednesday evening hopeful of leaving behind not only their terrifically disappointing defence of their other crown, the FIFA World Cup, two years ago but also their tepid, timid defeat by Georgia in Getafe on Tuesday night.
Then they hit France. The Atlantic west coast to be precise. Their plane touched down…