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The Euro 2008 Soccerlens Awards

With Euro 2008 all over and the winners Spain still celebrating their great success and the losers Germany still licking their wounds, I thought I would take a hopefully ‘light hearted’ look at who might be awarded the Soccerlens ‘alternative awards’ for the tournament. There are many categories we could look at but I don’t…

Euro 2008 in Quotes

If you didn’t see all of the Euro 2008 tournament then you can get a decent picture of what it was like by looking at some of the quotes made by the people taking part, and measuring what they said against the actual reality. Let’s look at a few of the quotes attributed to some…

Simple Spanish Style Enough To Conquer Europe

For all the laudatory praise that will inevitably follow Spain’s 1-0 victory over Germany in the Ernst Happel Stadium in Vienna, the culmination of the 2008 European Championship failed to live up to its consistently thrilling early stages. Despite their clear failure to organise a defence befitting a truly great team, Spain are a competent…

Germany 0-1 Spain – Champions At Last!

Germany 0-1 Spain (Torres 33′) Euro 2008 Final Date – Sunday 29 June 2008 Venue – Ernst Happel Stadion, Vienna Kickoff – 20:45 CET, 19:45 UK, 14:45 EST They had waited 44 long and painful years but Spain finally got their hands on their first piece of major silverware since 1964 as they gave Germany…

The Sun‘s Top 10 Flops of Euro 2008

Luca Toni‘s topping the charts again… only this time, it isn’t very flattering. English tabloid The Sun just dished out another Top 10 list, regrouping the “Biggest flops” of this Summer’s Euro championship tournament. The Italy striker tops the list, despite receiving a pat on the back from Bayern Munich chairman Karl Heinz Rummenigge. “It’s…

Football Debt, Spiraling Wages and the future of European Football

Taking a break from the Euros, Ronaldo, babes and bad refereeing decisions, we come back to one of our favourite topics, football and money. Long story short – UEFA president Michel Platini wants to establish a financial criteria which would qualify clubs and allow them to participate in the Champions League and UEFA Cup. The…

Transfer Rumours (28 June 08): Arsenal and Liverpool tap up youngsters, Newcastle after Manchester United defender, Chelsea to lose Lampard but gain Arshavin and more

Once the Euros wrap up tomorrow, you can expect a flurry of transfer activity to start happening across Europe starting 1st July. We’ll be there to cover everything (everything important, at least), but today there’s precious little to go on apart from some footballers confirming their lack of intelligence and some managers confirming that they’d…

Euro 2008 Babes

Euro 2008 is almost over, and we’ve seen our fair share of beauties in the stands and on the streets as women from all over Europe have trekked to SwissAustria to be part of the Euros. The football has been quite entertaining and although this year the Brazilians were missing from the lineup we had…

Real Madrid on Cristiano Ronaldo

Take it away Scott… http://therepublikofmancunia.com/real-madrid-passive-spectators-i-beg-to-differ/

Can Dossena be as effective as Evra, Clichy and Cole?

Liverpool are hoping to finally complete the signing of Udinese full-back Andrea Dossena next week, with the transfer fee reported in some quarters to be 7m. Is Dossena good enough to be categorised in the same bracket as Gael Clichy, Patrice Evra or Ashley Cole / Wayne Bridge?