Euro Football Tournament

Euro 2008 Revisited The Euro is one of two major soccer competitions and this year's event was co-hosted by Switzerland and Austria. This marked the second time that the event has been co-hosted, the first time being in Euro-2000 with Belgium and Holland co-hosting. The account below is my thoughts during and after the event which ended on June 29 2008. Group A This group had Portugal, Turkey, Switzerland and the Czech Republic. Going into the competition I thought that Portugal would easily come out of this group as head and they did. They have Cristiano Ronaldo (arguably the best player in the world right now) and a few supporting characters ...

As we are now into the knockout stages of Euro 2008, I thought it was appropriate to start my review on the tournament and I will endeavour to update the review once the tournament has been completed. As we are all aware England did not qualify for this years Euro 2008 tournament, which as a true England fan was extremely disappointing. However it is always fun watching the tournament as a neutral and it makes it a less stressful watch too!! The favourites at the start of the tournament were Germany and with their victory against Portugal in the first quarterfinal game yesterday they may fulfil this prophecy! However the best team in the group ...

As i watch the various football matches on the BBC or ITV i find myself thinking that the standard of football is very poor. There are some good teams like Holland and Spain but teams like Germany Italy and France who are normally very good aren't playing very well at all. And then you've got teams like Greece, Romania and Russia who while get results play a very defensive game and don't have any technical players. I just find find myself thinking that had England qualified for the tournament then this would be there best chance at getting to a major final, they wouldn't beat Holland or Spain and would have to rely on one knocking the other out but thats saying ...