Spain’s coach Luis Aragonés has just announced his squad for the European Championship in Austria and Switzerland. Fifteen months ago Spain’s progress was anything but assured. Aragonés arrived at Old Trafford - a man under great pressure. It is to his credit that his team still came to play football. The then England manager Steve McClaren gave a début to Manchester United’s on-loan goalkeeper Ben Foster. He impressed, but injury and lack of opportunity blighted his progress. In the absence of Wayne Rooney England’s line was led by Peter Crouch. England started well, almost getting a dream start but Michael Carrick's early effort failed to beat Spain's captain Iker Casillas. Shaun Wright-Phillips - one of the main victims of the racist abuse in the Santiago Bernabéu when the two sides last met - was ineffective, especially in terms of the delivery of his crosses. No England player excelled on that February night in Manchester.