GolTV has acquired the U.S. TV rights to the 2009 European under-21 Championship, scheduled for June 15-29 in Sweden.
The eight countries competing in the tournament will be England, Italy, Serbia, Germany, Finland, Belarus, Spain and Sweden. The draw for the tournament takes place on December 3rd.
For connoiseurs of the beautiful game, the European Under-21 Championship […]
Tags: Belarus · England · European Under-21 Championship · Finland · Germany · GolTV · Italy · Serbia · Spain · Sweden
Out of the first choice goalkeepers of the top four clubs in England, Manuel Almunia has always been cast as the ugly duckling. But that may be about to change. After seeing off his bitter rival Jens Lehmann last year, the Spaniard has made the number one jersey his own and has repaid Arsene Wenger’s […]
Tags: Arsenal · Arsene Wenger · England · Premiership · Spain
Many Glasgow Rangers fans may not be too pleased with the new design of the club’s away shirt. Manufactured by Umbro, the shirt looks very similar to the classic England shirt that the national team wore in the 1982 World Cup in Spain.
It makes you wonder if some Rangers fans will refuse to buy the […]
Tags: Admiral · England · Rangers · Spain · Umbro · World Cup
Spain are the champions of Europe after defeating Germany 1-0 in the final of the European Championships in Vienna. The Spanish, so long the perennial underachievers, thoroughly deserved their victory after dominating the final from start to finish.
Simply put, Spain were far too good for the Germans and no one would begrudge them their victory. […]
Tags: Fernando Torres · Spain
Tonight could give us one of the tournaments great games and after yesterday’s dramatic 5 goal thriller anything else will be a disappointment. It is impossible to gauge who can take the game tonight, such is Russia’s improvement after Spain spanked them in the opening game of Group D. Russia were absolutely phenomenal against Holland […]
Tags: Russia · Spain · euro 2008
And so the last of the quarter finals is upon us and of course this is the one with most needle involved. To say that there is a little bit of animosity between these two sides would be an understatement and it is 88 years since Spain beat Italy in a competitive fixture, way back in the […]
Tags: David Villa · Fernando Torres · Italy · Luca Toni · Spain · euro 2008
Earlier this week I wrote an opinion piece about how the experience of watching football matches on TV are oftentimes better than seeing the games in person. Well, I want to take that back. That’s because watching a match on TV in a pub is better than both watching matches at home and in person, […]
Tags: Spain · Sweden · euro 2008
Today’s clashes throw up some potentially exciting games with everything still to play for in this Group. The first game today, Sweden v Spain, gives us a mouth-watering start to the proceedings. Spain looked awesome against Russia and will be looking to qualify to the next stage with a game to spare. Sweden have had […]
