Ten months on from what became affectionately known in Britain as ‘Super Saturday , the unforgettable evening at the London Olympics when Jessica Ennis (Heptathlon), Greg Rutherford (Long Jump) and Mo Farah (10,000m) all won gold medals for the host nation, there was frisson of d j vu in the air on the opening day (22) of the European Team Championships, some 300 miles north of England s capital city at Gateshead.