England kick off their Euro 2016 campaign with a Group B match against Russia in Marseille on June 11. We asked Russian football expert DANNY ARMSTRONG to fill us in on the Thee Lions’ first opponents

RUSSIA’S best showing in the European Championship was in 2008. It included a 3-1 quarter-final defeat of Netherlands after extra-time before being thwarted by eventual winners Spain in the semi-finals.But the halcyon heights reached by a team including Andrei Arshavin and Roman Pavlyuchenko have long since faded.The national side – or Sbornaya as they are known in ...