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The Euros are more fun than the world cup. The overall quality of the games supercedes what one may find at the WC. Of course, that's coz we factor in the fact that there are more trams, and the quality cannot be sustained like the tighter competition between teams competing in a smaller format.
Netherlands, Germany, Spain, England in that order I think are favourites.
Dark horses: France, Italy and Portugal.
Netherlands, Germany, Spain, England in that order I think are favourites.
Dark horses: France, Italy and Portugal.
YOU CAN ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU WANT
Christmas is coming, kids, and Uefa has some timely advice for you: if there's a special present that you want but which Santa says you can't have because you've been a bold little brat, then put on your best clothes, sidle up on to Santa's lap, look the old codger in the eye and say … WAAAAAAAAAH! WAAAAAAAAAAAAH! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! WAAAAWAAAWAAAAWAAAAAAAAAAA!!! WA!
The approach paid dividends for the FA today, as its campaign of prolonged whining and wailing convinced Uefa to cave in and suspend the last match of the three-match ban that Wayne Rooney was given last October for booting some Montengero player who had the temerity to take the ball off him - an international celebrity! Rooney's reprieve means Ukraine's players better pack extra pads just in case England's star striker gets frustrated again when the countries meet in their last group game at Euro 2012.
"I don't want to go into specifics about the hearing because we have been asked by the panel to make clear it was a private hearing, so I cannot breach any confidence of what was said in the room, but we are very pleased with the outcome," rejoiced FA mandarin Adrian Bevington. It is thus not known whether the FA boosted its case by citing the precedent set in 2005, when prolonged English whining and wailing convinced Uefa to cave in and let Liverfekkin'wankscum compete in Big Cup despite not qualifying for it.
A year later the FA insisted on banning Rooney for three games for getting sent off for a harmless clash with Porto's Pepe in a pre-season friendly. Somehow England's governing body now thinks Rooney's attack on Miodrag Dzudovic in a Euro qualifier was not as serious an offence. In fact, the official line now seems to be that whacking a player who dispossesses you is no worse than swearing at an inanimate object, an offence for which the FA insisted on banning Rooney for two matches last season. What flipping what, indeed.
"I find it a bit strange the FA are supposed to be setting an example for things yet they appeal against Wayne Rooney's three-match ban," snorted Kenny Dalglish, expressing a sentiment that will surely be repeated at the appeal of every player who gets sent off in England forever more.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/dec/08/the-fiver-manchester-wayne-rooney
Christmas is coming, kids, and Uefa has some timely advice for you: if there's a special present that you want but which Santa says you can't have because you've been a bold little brat, then put on your best clothes, sidle up on to Santa's lap, look the old codger in the eye and say … WAAAAAAAAAH! WAAAAAAAAAAAAH! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! WAAAAWAAAWAAAAWAAAAAAAAAAA!!! WA!
The approach paid dividends for the FA today, as its campaign of prolonged whining and wailing convinced Uefa to cave in and suspend the last match of the three-match ban that Wayne Rooney was given last October for booting some Montengero player who had the temerity to take the ball off him - an international celebrity! Rooney's reprieve means Ukraine's players better pack extra pads just in case England's star striker gets frustrated again when the countries meet in their last group game at Euro 2012.
"I don't want to go into specifics about the hearing because we have been asked by the panel to make clear it was a private hearing, so I cannot breach any confidence of what was said in the room, but we are very pleased with the outcome," rejoiced FA mandarin Adrian Bevington. It is thus not known whether the FA boosted its case by citing the precedent set in 2005, when prolonged English whining and wailing convinced Uefa to cave in and let Liverfekkin'wankscum compete in Big Cup despite not qualifying for it.
A year later the FA insisted on banning Rooney for three games for getting sent off for a harmless clash with Porto's Pepe in a pre-season friendly. Somehow England's governing body now thinks Rooney's attack on Miodrag Dzudovic in a Euro qualifier was not as serious an offence. In fact, the official line now seems to be that whacking a player who dispossesses you is no worse than swearing at an inanimate object, an offence for which the FA insisted on banning Rooney for two matches last season. What flipping what, indeed.
"I find it a bit strange the FA are supposed to be setting an example for things yet they appeal against Wayne Rooney's three-match ban," snorted Kenny Dalglish, expressing a sentiment that will surely be repeated at the appeal of every player who gets sent off in England forever more.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/dec/08/the-fiver-manchester-wayne-rooney
