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After what happened last time (Greece) anything can happen

tsias wrote:
Group A:
Switzerland
Czech Republic
Portugal
Turkey

Group B:
Austria
Croatia
Germany
Poland

Group C:
Netherlands
Italy
Romania
France

Group D:
Greece
Sweden
Spain
Russia

Group A

Portugal
Turkey


Group B

Grmany
Poland


Group C

France
Italy


Group D

Spain
Russia

Portugal Czech Republic

Germany Croatia

Italy France

Spain Sweden

I hope Russia will play good, but I am afraid we are not stronger than Spain.


Czech Republic
Portugal




Croatia
Germany



Italy
Romania



Greece
Spain

C'mon the Czech Republic!

I'll probably be supporting Croatia. They gave England a footballing lesson in the qualifiers and it would be nice to see them do well in the tournament.

Despite England's non-involvement, I'm looking forward to Euro 2008 because I don't think there's a clear favourite and that should make it open and very interesting to follow.

Only a week to go now. I'm actually looking forward to it after ranting earlier in the tear that i wouldn't watch it.

From what i've seen, i cannot see France winning it. They are too like England. Full of a big names but never produce. Lost £50 quid on these tonight, betting against a draw and they proceeded to draw 0-0 with Paraguay.

The Dutch look the best attacking side but also look to be shocking at the back.

The Germans are doing their best to go into the competition on a bad run. 2-2 with Belarus and somehow managed to turn around a 1-0 deficit into a 2-1 tonight. Can't see them winning it.

The Czechs look the best side. Solid at the back and have goals in them. The Portugese look good too. These are the only sides i've seen recently, so cannot comment on anyone else.

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I've been watching some of the highlights from previous tournaments on BBCi. England - Ireland from 1988 was on this morning. I reckon the winners will come from Group C - France and Italy have the best squads and unlike Spain, they tend to play for their country rather than region. Portugal and Germany should do well too but I think Croatia will, like the Arse, miss Eduardo. Spain have got to win another tournament one day though.....

Undertaker wrote:
The Germans are doing their best to go into the competition on a bad run. 2-2 with Belarus and somehow managed to turn around a 1-0 deficit into a 2-1 tonight. Can't see them winning it.

Mate, the Germans always go into major tournaments on the back of a bad run. A friend of mine has a theory that it's done on purpose to put other teams off their guard...

Clive Tyldesley really is a strange man. He's spent the whole of the first half literally salivating over Ronaldo. Apparently we'll all be keeping a closer eye on his body language at the moment. Speak for yourself, you weirdo. What with David Pleat beside him talking about threesomes, I'm feeling rather dirty. And this is only the second game.

Patrick Bateman wrote:Clive Tyldesley really is a strange man. He's spent the whole of the first half literally salivating over Ronaldo. Apparently we'll all be keeping a closer eye on his body language at the moment. Speak for yourself, you weirdo. What with David Pleat beside him talking about threesomes, I'm feeling rather dirty. And this is only the second game.

I can't stand the ITV commentators. Peter 'Alan Partridge' Drury is even worse, in my opinion. Having said that, the BBC isn't much better. John Motson is becoming more and more like a cariacature of himself, while Mark 'not-so' Bright and Mark 'oh-so witty' Lawrenson are bland and state the bleeding obvious most of the time.

Two decent games today, though. Portugal played some delightful stuff at times.

Not seen any of the Swiss game and i'm currently watching the highlights of the Portugal game on BBC's euro match of the day

Both sides look so open. No tactical nouse at all but all Turkey seemed to have done is hack players down and cheat.

David Pleat is a terrible summariser too. Besides also stating the bleeding obvious, he makes mincemeat of players' names on a regular basis. After "Marcus DaBeasley" in the last world cup he managed something that sounded suspiciously like Bot-swinger for the Portuguese full-back today...

Kris wrote:
Two decent games today, though. Portugal played some delightful stuff at times.

Oh, it was the Portugal team playing wasnt it? For the 90 mins I thought it was Ronaldo vs Turkey