Articles tagged with "euro-2008-news"
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | Apr 22nd, 2008
I'm not sure I've met a single person who approves of faking injuries during the course of a game for whatever reason. Yeah, there's "professional ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Apr 21st, 2008
UEFA recently polled their Euro 2008 website users to find the best volley ever scored at a European Championship.
No offence to UEFA (who I embrace ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Apr 21st, 2008
The Euro 2008 referees were last week handed their instructions for Swissaustria. And the instructions were "get tough."
The men in the middle have been told ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Laurie | Apr 18th, 2008
My favorite part of Wikipedia's bio of Henry Delaunay is this:
"After playing for the Paris team Étoile des Deux Lacs, he became a referee. He ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Apr 18th, 2008
Despite his destroying England on the way to Euro 2008, Slaven Bilić might just be my favourite international coach right now. When he's not coaching ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Apr 17th, 2008
Quite a few players are sweating on their places in the final 23-man squads for Euro 2008. Because going to a major tournament is great ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Apr 17th, 2008
English red-top The Mirror is piling the misery on Steve McClaren. They're claiming that poor old Second Choice Steve's failure to get England to Euro ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | Apr 16th, 2008
This is where we take a look at the the 2004 Euros Team of the Tournament and look into their present contributions - if any ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Apr 16th, 2008
Just like Spain's Luis Aragones earlier this week, Poland boss Leo Beenhakker has announced a provisional squad for Euro 2008.
Like Aragones' first draft, Beenhakker's is ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Laurie | Apr 16th, 2008
Do you enjoy a little exhibitionism with your football? Then grab your passport and head to Austria, because Spencer Tunick is coming.
What do you ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Apr 15th, 2008
I can't take any credit for this, but the magnificent people who make World Cup Blog and The Offside happen have put together this rather ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | Apr 14th, 2008
It certainly looks like Luis Aragones has decided to put the kibosh on this hot topic early enough: no Raul at the European Championships. Luis, ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Apr 14th, 2008
Remember how we told you that Euro 2008 was going to be made easy for fans with good signage? Seems the organizers are delivering on ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Laurie | Apr 10th, 2008
Chris the Italy fan would not write about this one in a million years, so this France fan will tell you about Euro '00, which ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | Apr 10th, 2008
With Czechoslovakia up 4-3 on penalties in the 1976 European Championships final, Antonin Panenka stepped up to take the fifth and potentially decisive penalty against ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | Apr 10th, 2008
The status of Roberto Donadoni, particularly his contract, has been a huge talking point in Italy recently. Some people are for an extension, leading the ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | Apr 9th, 2008
The Italian company Panini puts out stickers books or albums for the children when the big tournaments come rolling around. Each team participating gets its ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | Apr 9th, 2008
This post is half semi-important crap, half an excuse to use that picture again.
No less than three weeks ago we were patting Russia on the ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | Apr 9th, 2008
It seems like the defining player of the Czech midfield is constantly in flux these days, with the slight injury to current captain and midfield ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Laurie | Apr 8th, 2008
Chances are high that twenty-three-year-old forward/midfielder Nico Kranjcar will be playing for Croatia this summer. He currently has 39 caps, and played in every single ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Laurie | Apr 7th, 2008
He is France's all-time leading goal scorer. When he played for Arsenal, he was one of their best players ever, scoring 174 goals in ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Apr 4th, 2008
UEFA's official Euro 2008 website held a vote recently to determine the best headed goal in European Championship history. The winner was João Pinto's diving ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Apr 3rd, 2008
You know a big tournament is coming when companies start releasing fun little tie-in games. So the release of JVC's "Euroball" means Euro 2008 is ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Apr 2nd, 2008
One of the greatest things about international tournaments is seeing young talent burst onto the international scene. Remember Wayne Rooney announcing himself to the world ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Mar 31st, 2008
Seems a certain four syllable fizzy drink manufacturer is feeling very optimistic about Euro 2008's power to bring people together. In the first commercial (above) ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Mar 28th, 2008
I hope Germany's players had a good old knees-up after their 4-0 win over Switzerland on Wednesday, because that's the last good time they'll be ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Mar 27th, 2008
European champions Greece beat Portugal again, in their first meeting since the Euro 2004 final. In fairness to Portugal they were missing Ronaldo, Nani and ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Mar 27th, 2008
Of all the friendlies involving Euro 2008 teams yesterday, you probably wouldn't have picked this as the thriller. A struggling Austrian team taking on the ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Mar 26th, 2008
Alexander Frei has been out of international football for roughly a year, with hip and calf injuries. But after logging more than his fair share ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Mar 25th, 2008
Spain coach Luis Aragones isn't a professional bookie. But if he was, he'd be slashing the odds on France and Italy winning Euro 2008. He ...
