Sport 05-09-2001 Nation Asks Eriksson For More Of The Same who: England football team what: Play Albania in World Cup Group Nine qualifier where: St James` Park, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE when: Tonight snippet: "Same again, please," says The Telegraph`s Henry Winter ahead of tonight`s World Cup qualifier between England and Albania at St James` Park in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, and just four days after an historic victory in Munich. "Same line-up, same discipline, same passion, same panache, same care in possession and same finishing, please." "It might happen," says The Guardian`s David Lacey. "The last time a full England team played on Tyneside, back in 1938, Norway were comfortably beaten 4-0 and with Michael Owen in such a voracious scoring mood Albania could go the same way." "A great team does not just produce every now and then, it does it the whole time. Great teams hate losing," said coach Sven Goran Eriksson yesterday. "We have been called heroes but we will only be heroes if we have achieved something of real significance by next June." He is referring, of course, to the 2002 World Cup finals in Japan and South Korea. Victory against Albania will put England above Germany in Group Nine of the European qualifiers, points out The Independent`s Glenn Moore. "Any other result and Germany, crushed 5-1 on Saturday, will be back in pole position before the final brace of matches on 6 October." [... more]

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