Editorials

France 1-4 HollandHolland secured their place in the quarter finals of Euro 2008, with a crushing 4-1 victory over France on Friday evening.Marco Van Basten’s side followed up their superb win over Italy on Monday, overpowering and outfighting Raymond Domenech’s aging French team. The fluidity of Holland’s play so far in Euro 2008, combined with […]

Just when you thought that Euro 2008 was going to be an excellent but predictable tournament a game comes along that throws the whole thing wide open.Up until day six, Germany, Portugal, Holland and Spain were beginning to look invincible. The game against Croatia looked like a relatively tough one for the pre-tournament favourites Germany, […]

You just can’t keep Real Madrid’s sorry, Manchester United’s Cristiano Ronaldo out of the news. On the day that his national manager was unveiled as the new manager of Chelsea, he played a big part in the fifth day of Euro 2008 which saw the two first day winners and the two first day losers […]

Day four of the Euro 2008 tournament saw Russia lose 4-1 to Spain and defending champions Greece lose 2-0 to Sweden. Spain looked very impressive with a hat-trick from David Villa and a late goal from substitute Cesc Fabrigas. Russia were really not in the game at all and scored only a consolation through Roman […]

In the games on day three of the Euros we went from the sublime to the ridiculous. Actually it was the other way round as the early game between France and Romania was quite dreadful and the evening game between Holland and Italy was superb.One of the pundits on the BBC in England described the […]

Mark Hughes started his reign as Manchester City manager last week by outlining plans to turn his new club into a major force in English and European football. The pertinent questions many City fans will be ask is how much time will Hughes be given to turn this vision in to a reality? Sven Goran […]

The second day of the European Championships followed a very similar pattern to the first. The joint hosts Austria, like Switzerland before them, put up a decent showing against one of the ‘outside bets’ for the tournament, Croatia, who like the Czech Republic before them, looked far from impressive. The hosts lost the game 1-0.In […]

The Uefa European Championships are underway at last and the first two games have been and gone. All in all it wasn’t a bad start to a tournament and the quality on show pointed towards the likelihood of Euro 2008 being an exciting and entertaining competition.After a particularly dull but mercifully short opening ceremony the […]

The Uefa European Championships finally get underway today and after having to survive two tedious weeks without any football, I can’t wait! You can’t really count the friendly internationals. Especially the England ones!Who is going to win the tournament? Well, at the time of writing the latest odds look like this:Germanytt7/2Spaintt11/2Italytt6/1Portugaltt15/2Francett15/2Hollandtt12/1Croatiatt14/1Czech Republict20/1Russiatt25/1Switzerlandt33/1Greecett33/1Swedentt33/1Romaniatt40/1Polandtt50/1Turkeytt50/1Austriatt100/1The odds are literally […]

First tournament:The first tournment was held in France, 1960.The Trophy:For Euro 2008, the trophy has been remodeled and is now slightly larger. The trophy is made of sterling silver and weights 8 kilograms. It is 60 centimeters tall.Winners on home soil throughout history:Only three sides have ever won the UEFA European Championship on home soil: […]