Archive for June, 2008
Monday, June 30th, 2008
So we finish one of the best ever soccer tournaments on a high, the best team has won and collectively this could be one of the best European tournaments ever. Well done to Spain, who looked very creative going forward but maybe more surprisingly very strong at the back which ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
So after a couple of interesting semi finals, the final of this fine soccer tournaments looks like a pretty obvious one before the tournament but not necessarily one that you would of picked 10 days ago.
First of all well done to Turkey, giving the Germans a real going over and ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
So Holland vs Italy and Germany vs Croatia? This is why I shouldn't gamble. What a funny game football can be sometimes, but no doubt this is the reason we watch and love it.
The Dutch crumbled under the Russian pressure, the beautiful flowing football that we had seen from Van ...
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Saturday, June 21st, 2008
A fairly dire 118 minutes turned out to be the prelude for a fascinating last 2 minutes where somehow, yet again Turkey came back from the dead to knock out "Dark Horses" Croatia. Before the match I was hoping that both teams would go out there and show us the ...
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
*Don't tell me you expected these lot to do so well!*
So the quarter finals are nearly upon us I'm watching the France vs Italy game and have been frustrated and disappointed with the quality on show tonight. Did these two teams really make it to the world cup final two ...
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