Group D features champions Greece, quadrennial fancied tip Spain, the ageing Sweden, and dark horses from the east, Russia.
With matches in Innsbruck and Salzburg, Group D is perhaps the most unfashionable of the four pools. With Germany, France, Italy, and Marilyn Monroe, I mean Cristiano Ronaldo, elsewhere, most eyes will be on everybody’s favourite busted [...]
June 10, 2008
Euro 2008: Group D Preview & Predictions
June 10, 2008
Euro 2008 Diary: Day 3
Random thoughts:
1. France look spent.
2. Claude Makelele gets away with war so often, another spiteful tackle against Romania goes unpunished.
3. Victor Piturca got his tactics spot on – but may regret not being more offensive against what could turn out to be the weakest opponent Romania will face in the group.
4. Fabio Cannavaro was hugely [...]
June 10, 2008
Euro 2008: Media Quote of the Day
Günter Netzer, the iconic German midfielder of 1972 European Championship fame, commenting for ARD on Ruud van Nistelrooy’s controversial goal for Holland against Italy last night:
“It’s in the rules, but that’s one rule that passed me by”.
June 10, 2008
Behind The Wall: 12 Years and the Cracks Show
Summer finds me back in Berlin sampling the Euro 2008 atmosphere – German style. Having hosted the last World Cup so spectacularly, fussball fieber is alive and well in Deutschland for the Teutonic sequel in Austria and Switzerland.
Sunday night’s Group B clash between Germany and Poland in Klagenfurt had the firecrackers in the air as [...]
