Articles tagged with "austria"
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 12th, 2008
Croatia goes through after beating a weak German side, and Austria overcomes the early-exit host curse after being gifted with a stoppage time penalty ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | Jun 12th, 2008
Player of the Day: Artur Boruc. Utter brilliance to begin the game, he's the biggest reason Poland got the result they did. Plus his son ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 12th, 2008
1. Sex makes you good at football
Just ask the Croatian national team, who've been enjoying conjugal visits from their wives and girlfriends (maybe both?) at ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 12th, 2008
GROUP B
June 12, 2045 CET, Vienna (Austria)
Austria1
VS
Poland 1
Vastic (pen) 90+ Roger 30'
Thanks to everyone for reading and commenting. One of the co-hosts finally earns ...
Posted on: Poland Euro 2008 Blog by tomasz | Jun 12th, 2008
Just as players, fans also need mental preparation before a game. We need to believe that we are better. We need to believe that we'll ...
Posted on: Poland Euro 2008 Blog by tomasz | Jun 11th, 2008
So there it is. As a matter of tradition our second tournament game is the one that we must win, or at least can't lose ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 11th, 2008
In our first Euro 2008 podcast, Ian welcomes Fan's Guide author Stuart Fuller to the show. Stuart is on the ground in Swissaustria and gives ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Laurie | Jun 10th, 2008
Nearly everyone expected Austria to go down without a fight in this tournament. As we've said before, FIFA ranks them 92nd in the world ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | Jun 8th, 2008
Player of the Day: Lukas Podolski - one easy goal, one hard one. After featuring almost exclusively off the bench for Bayern this season in ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 8th, 2008
The big day
Euro 2008 got started in Austria today, with everyone from Group B in action. Review and video from Austria 0-1 Croatia and ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 8th, 2008
June 8th, 1800 CET, Vienna (Austria)
Group B
Austria
vs
Croatia
0-1
Modric (pen) 4'
Huge effort, and rumours of "worst host team ever" look wide of the mark. Those who petitioned ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 8th, 2008
Austria
vs
Croatia
Sunay, June 8th, 18:00 kickoff CET
Vienna, Austria - Travel to Vienna
THE BIG ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 8th, 2008
*a fake documentary
It's no secret that Austria's Euro 2008 chances aren't good. The Guardian's preview sums it up very simply with: "Austria's main problem is ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 8th, 2008
Since the Swiss lost yesterday, it's up to the Austrians to win back some co-host-pride by getting a result in Vienna today. Coach Josef Hickersberger ...
Posted on: Switzerland Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jun 7th, 2008
After long days of hectic expectation the curtain has fallen. The greatest sports events ever to be witnessed by the snowcapped Alps begins.
Welcome to ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 6th, 2008
All 16 Euro 2008 teams have nicknames, though some are more widely used than others. Many of the nicknames are simple reflections of the colour ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 5th, 2008
There's only one tried and trusted way of correctly predicting final group standings at major international tournaments.
But replacing every single player and referee with robots ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 3rd, 2008
Nickname: Nope. Used to be the Wunderteam, but those days are long gone.
Jersey: Standard red Puma shirt at home, interesting choice of black for away. ...
Posted on: Poland Euro 2008 Blog by tomasz | Jun 3rd, 2008
I hope that Leo and the players don't surf the net in search of how their tournament chances are viewed by the worldwide press. The ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Laurie | Jun 2nd, 2008
Bad news for "known hooligans." If you're trying to go to a game in Austria, expect to be turned back at the border. ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Ian Rose | May 31st, 2008
Another day, and more heartbreak for players that earned their way into Euro 2008, then lost their place because of injury. This time, it's ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | May 31st, 2008
We move on to Group B in the slightly clumsily named Euro 2008 Jersey Poll Tournament. Basically we're going to show you the jerseys from ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | May 31st, 2008
Austria
vs
Poland
Thursday, June 12, 2045 CET
Vienna (Austria) - Travel to Vienna
THE BIG PICTURE
Two losers ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Laurie | May 30th, 2008
In our poll last week, the vote wasn't even close. The winner was...
CROATIA! With 44%(!!!) of the total votes. Poland was second ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | May 27th, 2008
The Euros are upon us, so here are a few good reasons to tune in and check out one of the most competitive tournaments in ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | May 26th, 2008
Looks like Vienna is doing its best to make a couple euros off this whole tournament thing. While you're sipping on your ultra-pricey adult beverage, ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | May 23rd, 2008
Austria has decided to take measures to curb the adult beverage consumption during the tournament this summer by jacking up the price of booze in ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Laurie | May 23rd, 2008
Earlier this week, Chris told you about the Austrian effort to get the team to withdraw before they humiliate the country. Today ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Laurie | May 20th, 2008
Austria are not favorites in this tournament. In fact, as Daryl pointed out yesterday, when you look at FIFA rankings, they will be the ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | May 19th, 2008
The FIFA World Rankings for May were released recently, the final world rankings before Euro 2008 begins. So here's how FIFA ranks the Euro 2008 ...
