Sunday July 9th 2006, 11pm. Italy had just beaten France to become World Champions for the 4th time. The sound of car horns blaring could be heard in every major city in the Western world as Italians celebrated a historic win and looked forward to a new golden age of football for their country. The party […]
Tags: France · Holland · Italy · Romania · euro 2008
I’ve finally had a chance to catch up on watching some of the Euro 2008 matches I missed. The jet lag hit me later in the week, so I found myself watching many of the games this week at weird hours on DVR.The one thing about football is that it can be so subjective. Earlier […]
Tags: Austria · Croatia · Czech Republic · France · Germany · Greece · Holland · Italy · Poland · Portugal · Romania · Russia · Spain · Sweden · Switzerland · Turkey · euro 2008
Italy are staring into the abyss, the players have been arguing the weekend, the Italian press have being going ballistic and the manager Roberto Donadoni is under massive pressure. Under enormous pressure, the coach is expected to ring the changes for tonight’s game against Romania. He’s already confirmed that Del Piero will return to the […]
Tags: France · Holland · euro 2008
It’s fair to say that the third day of Euro 2008 didn’t necessarily provide us with entertaining soccer for the duration of both games (certainly not in the first one), but the results of those games were perhaps the most unexpected of the tournament so far. The favorites had won each of the previous […]
Tags: Dirk Kuyt · France · Italy · Romania · UEFA · euro 2008 · european championship
So, after watching Croatia give a wonderful impression of England and Germany win their first game at Championships since 1996, today gives us the first day we’ve been waiting for. Group C is the Group of Death, where one of the big boys will definitely go out. Yet I think it will be worse than that, I […]
Tags: Arjen Robben · Christian Panucci · France · Holland · Italy · Romania · euro 2008
French manager Raymond Domenech is facing the prospect of being without 3 key players for Mondays opening Group C clash with Romania in Zurich.
Patrick Vieira is extremely doubtful to recover from his thigh strain but he has now been joined by worries over Thierry Henry and Franck Ribery’s fitness. Henry is suffering from a sciaric nerve issue and is […]
Tags: Arsenal · France · Patrice Evra · Switzerland · Thierry Henry · euro 2008 · european championship
The countdown to Euro 2008 is now on in earnest as we’re less than three days away from kickoff in the opener, Switzerland-Czech Republic. Along with my final prediction on Friday, I’ll post the complete TV schedule for the group stage for everyone’s convenience. I can’t wait for this thing to get started.
Onto my […]
Tags: Cristiano Ronaldo · France · Germany · Italy · Portugal · UEFA · euro 2008 · european championship
As we build up to the impending start of the 13th European Championships, I thought I’d take a walk down memory lane and share my five favourite games that this tournament has thrown up over the years with you and I’ll start with the match that hooked me in to become the football obsessive that […]
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