Articles tagged with "russia"
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 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 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 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: USA World Cup Team Blog by Carter Daly | Jun 24th, 2008
You must realize first and foremost that this is not a call for Bob Bradley to be fired, although I know many of you are ...
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: Spain Euro 2008 Blog by Cesar | Jun 24th, 2008
As the glow of beating Italy fades, the reality of facing Guus Hiddink's Russia side in the Euro 2008 semifinals begins to take shape.
Hiddink ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 23rd, 2008
1. Jogi Low is an excellent picker
After being sent off against Austria, Germany's coach wasn't allowed to contact his players during the game against Portugal. ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 23rd, 2008
Your Euro 2008 semi-finalists are: Turkey, Germany, Russia, Spain. Of these four teams, only Spain are unbeaten. Turkey lost to Portugal, Germany lost to Croatia ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Laurie | Jun 23rd, 2008
The collective wisdom is that it's good for a national team to have players playing in the big leagues outside their own country. If ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Ian Rose | Jun 22nd, 2008
We have two games to cover with this weekend's award ceremonies. So let's get cracking. First up ...
The Life of Brian Award : ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 21st, 2008
Just like yesterday, all the good stuff was saved for the end of the game.
Despite Ruud van Nistelrooy's late equalizer Guus Hiddink became the happiest ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jun 21st, 2008
Most actors in today's drama were gutted... But also pretty honest.
Marco van Basten: "Russia deserved to win. They could have won with a bigger difference ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jun 21st, 2008
It's more than half an hour after the game. I needed some time to collect my wits, my thoughts and all the coffee cups I ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jun 21st, 2008
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Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 21st, 2008
Russian fans celebrate Pavlyuchenko's opening goal by showing off their tans in Basel.
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Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | Jun 21st, 2008
QUARTER-FINAL 3
June 21st, 2045 CET, Basel (Switzerland)
Netherlands1
VS
Russia 3
van Nistelrooy 86' Pavlyuchenko 56', Torbinski 113', Arshavin '116
FULLTIME
122' Dutch trying to mount any type of chellenge, ...
Posted on: Russia Euro 2008 Blog by Nick | Jun 21st, 2008
Hello to all. I just wanted to write a small blog on this evening's Netherlands-Russia game.
The most interesting thing about this match is Hiddink facing ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 21st, 2008
You'll probably read this on a hundred other websites, but Russia boss Guus Hiddink is plotting the downfall of his home nation today. Though the ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Ian Rose | Jun 21st, 2008
As if the Dutch needed any extra confidence coming off of their 9-1 aggregate victory over the rest of the group of death, they can ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Laurie | Jun 21st, 2008
Boys and girls, we as a group are not doing so well.
Fully 60% of us expected Portugal to win over Germany. Yet Germany won, ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | Jun 21st, 2008
This is the dream matchup of the quarterfinals. Both teams have been playing some beautiful attacking football and Russia's mastermind, Guus Hiddink, is both from ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | Jun 20th, 2008
It's only taken one game, of course the UEFA Cup didn't hurt, and Andrei Arshavin's stock is shooting through the roof. Previously clubs like Newcastle, ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jun 20th, 2008
When he got back in the Russian hotel, Guus Hiddink enjoyed a late supper and went to bed. But the sleep wouldn't come. He enjoyed ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Laurie | Jun 19th, 2008
Cristiano Ronaldo or Michael Ballack? Flying Dutchmen or Russian youth? Croatian dark horse vs. um...Turkish dark horse? World Cup Champs Italy or ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 19th, 2008
Euro 2008 group stages, we need to talk. We've been together now for 11 days, and they've been some of the best 11 days of ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Laurie | Jun 18th, 2008
Some news to read as you face thirty-eight years in prison for hacking the school computers to change your grades:
Wingers are back in fashion (and ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | Jun 18th, 2008
Player of the Day: Andrei Arshavin. Do you think Hiddink was just playing mind games by saying he might not start? Because if this is ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Ian Rose | Jun 18th, 2008
Just like a few days ago in Group B, we had two matches today, one that meant nothing and the other everything. Spain took ...
