Andy Gray

The Home Nations Cup (Carling Nations Cup) is back and I'm very excited that this great competition has returned to the international football calendar. I was involved in it as a player back in the day and I always looked forward to the tournament. After all, there's bound to be some rivalry amongst the different teams and that makes for good, hard, competitive football matches. The big story of course is that the English FA have decided they don't want to be involved this time round and whereas I'm disappointed by that, I'm not the slightest bit surprised. For the FA, the World Cup and European Championships are seen as the competitions they are desperate to win and they obviously feel that being able to pick and choose who they play in international friendlies is a better option that...