Articles tagged with "euro-2008-news"
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | Jun 26th, 2008
Everyone expected a vastly different game from the first encounter, but it was damn near the same thing right down to the scoreline and weather ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 26th, 2008
Mario Gómez
The Stuttgart striker's 2007/8 season looked like this: played 32, scored 28. That's what they call form. And since his February 2007 debut, Gomez ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 26th, 2008
Roberto Donadoni (or Gonagoni as he was cruelly nicknamed by, er, us) has been tossed a mouldy lifejacket and told to jump off the good ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Ian Rose | Jun 26th, 2008
24 years ago, a Spanish team was headed to the European Championship final. But Luis Aragones' Spain side will not be looking to emulate ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | Jun 26th, 2008
SEMI-FINAL 2
June 26th, 2045 CET, Vienna (Austria)
Spain3
VS
Russia 0
Xavi 55', Guiza 73', Silva 82'
GAME Germany v Spain it is.
Silva gol:
Guiza gol:
UEFA is saying a ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | Jun 26th, 2008
Neither of these teams were supposed to be here. Spain because of their history and Russia partly because of the history they don't have. But ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 26th, 2008
Now we know why Russia have been playing such an attack-minded game at Euro 2008. According to The Sun (motto: "all the boobs that's fit ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Ian Rose | Jun 26th, 2008
There are two games left in Euro 2008, the semifinal between Spain and Russia, and the final between the winner of that match and Germany. ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Laurie | Jun 26th, 2008
Congratulations to us! We've gotten two in a row right. We picked Spain over Italy in the quarterfinals, and now we've picked Germany ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Laurie | Jun 25th, 2008
Some news to read as you realize you missed the last ride on the brothel bus:
Arshavin has already had five offers (Newcastle United Blog)
Klose but ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Laurie | Jun 25th, 2008
A brief summary of Germany-Turkey:
Football that's fun to watch. Both teams on the attack. The lead going back and forth, each ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | Jun 25th, 2008
Player of the Day: Philipp Lahm, proof that all it takes is one ball to be hero for the day. After getting baked on the ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 25th, 2008
In our latest Euro 2008 Podcast, we discuss the possibility of Euro 2008 expansion. Is 16 teams enough? Is co-hosting a good idea? I try ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 25th, 2008
Are you amazed that Spain seem to have broken their curse? The team hadn't been to the semi-finals of any major tournament since 1984 (where ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 25th, 2008
I think we all mistakenly believe that technology rules the world these days. If you can get internet on your phone then surely we can ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Ian Rose | Jun 25th, 2008
We all know that Euro 2008 is about more than just the play on the pitch. No, this isn't another post about hot fans. ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | Jun 25th, 2008
I'll give you one guess which goal Jogi Loew is celebrating here. (Photo by Laurence Griffiths/Getty Image)
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Laurie | Jun 25th, 2008
SEMI-FINAL 1
June 25th, 2045 CET, Basel (Switzerland)
Germany3
VS
Turkey 2
Schweinsteiger 26'
Klose 78' Lahm 89' Borel 22', Senturk 86'
How ironic that Turkey loses to a ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Laurie | Jun 25th, 2008
On paper, this matchup should be a blowout.
Shouldn't even be close.
Up front, Germany has strikers like Miroslav Klose. And ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | Jun 25th, 2008
The Unlikely Fan, obviously still reeling from his adopted Oranje's exit from the tournament and taking it about as well as Hillary Clinton, gives his ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | Jun 25th, 2008
So you've got Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Olof Mellberg, Freddie Ljunberg and Kim Kallstrom (we think - he plays for Svenska, right?). Some pretty good talent there. ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Laurie | Jun 25th, 2008
Before Euros started, I posted about some of the things people could bet on and the pre-tournament odds they could get. (Fernando Torres was ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Laurie | Jun 25th, 2008
Our prediction ability started out a little rusty in the quarterfinals. (Which is a polite way of saying we collectively sucked eggs.) We ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Ian Rose | Jun 24th, 2008
Something to read while under attack by birds, in Chicago:
One more Euro 2008 babe collection (SoccerLens)
Was it really a ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | Jun 24th, 2008
These are the unheralded heroes for each team, two were pretty difficult to pick (I'll have you guess which ones), who will make the biggest ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 24th, 2008
Our latest Fake Photo, sent in by Mike, is a dramatization of the "incident" between Patrick Vieira and Patrice Evra in the tunnel after France's ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 24th, 2008
One Croatian newspaper has decided that citizens are so depressed by the team's dramatic quarterfinal exit, they need counseling.
After ninety goalless minutes of the quarterfinal ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Laurie | Jun 24th, 2008
Looks like Football Fever is not just a human phenomenon.
Plastic pigs are set up to look as if they play soccer in Meckenbeuren near Friedrichshafen, ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Ian Rose | Jun 24th, 2008
Among the various bits of spam in my inbox this morning, there were of course a number of messages touting the next big thing in ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 24th, 2008
You've heard by now that Turkey have got problems. Of the 23 players that Fatih Terim took to Swissaustria he'll potentially be down to just ...
