Nice work if you can get it If I slagged off my boss in the media I’d probably get little understanding – maybe even the bullet. What does Gareth Barry get? A day off! The versatile mid-table defender-cum-midfielder has been told to stay away from the training ground and fined an obscene amount of money […]
Man U News In other news, the transfer merry-go-round continues. Man U think they might fancy a bit of Colombian striker Falcao for £15m rather than shell out £30m for proven Premiership player Dimitar Berbatov. Clearly the Diego Forlan fiasco didn’t dent Sir Fergie’s faith in South American strikers. Perhaps more worryingly for Fergie is […]
Not that Keane I’ve never been a big fan of Rafa Benitez. He’s your typical big-four manager: always moaning, blames referees for bad results and a bit of a spoofer. The patchiness of his transfer record is up there with the best of them but while Wenger and Ferguson can point to huge success in […]
Germany 0 Spain 1 (predicted: 1-2) It could have been a far greater margin in the end but there is no doubt that the most deserving side won it. Germany started brightly and only for Klose and Podolski losing their nerve on seperate occasions in the Spanish box we may have had a very different […]
Semi-finals review Germany 3 Turkey 2 (predicted: 1-0) What a strange game that was. Germany played like absolute no-hopers for 45 minutes and while they improved after the break, they still didn’t look like a team that was ninty minutes away from being European Champions. Meanwhile an understrength Turkey side dominated the first half, went […]
Semi Final 1: Germany v Turkey Apparently Turkey are so short of players they will be bringing in Muzzy Izzet and the bloke who played Roland on Grange Hill. Well, maybe not, but they are rumoured to be considering an outfield position for their third choice goalkeeper since they only have 13 fit players. Volkan […]
Having seen only one full game (Italy v Spain), highlights of another (Germany v Portugal) and none of the other two, I’m not in a position to accurately disect too much of the action from the last eight. Add to that the fact that I predicted none of the games correctly and you have probablby […]
Day 16 preview Having seen three unexpected results in a row (none more so than Russia’s victory over the Netherlands), one might be tempted to expect the unexpected again tonight. Spain have been one of the better footballing teams so far in the tournament. But as we saw with the Netherlands, scoring 9 goals and […]
I’m going to change things about here since I haven’t had time to watch the Germany/Portugal game outside of injury time at the end. I will review the quarter-finals after the weekend. So let’s have a look at the next two quarter finals on Friday and Saturday. Day 14 preview Croatia are full of confidence […]
Day 12 review Sweden 0 Russia 2 (prediction: 1-2) We’ve seen some fantastic performances in the competition so far, not least from Spain and the Netherlands, but Russia put in a stunning shift against Sweden to run out comfortable winners. Arshavin and Zhirkov were the star performers, Pavluchenko saving his best performance for tonight too. […]
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