Portugal 6-5 England in penalty kicks on June 24th 2004 after 2-2 aet. The
first quarter final of the tournament.
Why was Beckham even on the field? He was one of the worst players
throughout this tournament. One feels sorry for all of the effort made by
those whose play was impeccable on this day: Cole, Terry, Campbell and
Lampard in particular.
On Canada Day, July 1st., the bloody Greeks won a silver goal game to
reach the final. This was a disaster, and Death's Head Collina had his
last International game, and he was remiss in missing several awful
tackles, plus a clear grab of Koller's shirt in the Greece penalty area.
The wrong team won, and the referee gave it to them. Not that the Czechs
shouldn't have scored several times.
So, this will be the first time that I will not watch an international
final. Simply disgusted, and I don't live in Tunbridge Wells.
A really good game, the best team on the day lost because del Piero
was counting his $70,000/wk, instead of counting his steps. But, the best team
of the tournament did win, although the Netherlands were a close second. The
Czech Republik were the team who would have done better except for the draw and
some ridiculously poor refereeing. And, if Xavier is STILL not admitting he
handled the ball, what an intellect beneath his blonde thatch, eh what?!
Vive la France! Didn't
need Stanley! Oh, sorry, he played for England, when.....
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Beckenbauer nails the answers about Germany. Not that it says so in the
article, but he thinks, like me, that Klose is rubbish. |
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Chirac huff at French Cup Final Also:
French final table; and
the
German;
Spanish and
Dutch
at the end of 2001/2002 season |
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04/30/2002
Veron
should be thrown out of ManU, say I, and a lot of other people,
especially after the Bayer Leverkusen showdown |
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If Le Pen wins the French Presidency
this May (2002),
the team will look like
this!! He did not win, thank goodness, but wait, it's not over yet! |
2000
European
Championship results:
golden goal at top of
SoccerPictures page
On to better things: trades and thoughts. Why,
indeed, do the French like London? Well, if they play for Arsenal and Chelsea,
they might do so with sangfroid?
Two good ones, who should have met in the final, and it doesn't matter if
Kluivert only got three.
 
Two bad teams, both gone, and with them both these players, Shearer and
Matthaeus, from International life:
 
Euro2000 data sheet
04/07/00 Night before and two nights after. What a horrible time for
Leeds. Visit
http://www.galatasaray.org.tr/
for their viewpoint. Go to the English page on their site for a strange opinion
on why the Ali Sami Yen stadium is called Hell.
On the other hand, what a glorious game put on between Chelsea and
Barcelona, with petulant Kleivert throwing his gloves at Van Gaal. And, even
watching ManU put seven goals in against West Ham was a pleasure.
Late 1999 : Getting ready for 2000AD, the European Championship: forget the
millennium, that's not for another year, this is far more important. Social hype re
Germany v England, both for the World Cup preliminaries and, now, for the Euro Finals. Who
cares, if the games are good.
L: A slice of the Tartan Army ready for the November 1999 EuroClash.
Hampden/Wembley: Scotland v England November 13th & 17th 1999. Just
over a year left in the Century and the Millennium. Moral victory to Craig Brown and the
Scots, including Hendry. Never say die used to be said of the English. They were sadly
lacking on the day.
Pathetic England. Several good players in the squad, all playing in the wrong position.
Kelvin Koogan will have to find some left sided players, (well, he had some, but where on
earth were they on the field?) and find some others who can actually pass the ball.
Beckham was OK in Scotland, and woefully inadequate at Wembley. Perhaps they should cart
him off to the south-west with the twin towers. Seaman, Campbell, Adams, Keown, Neville,
Scholes, Heskey for a moment, Shearer when he was in his own half. Ince when he wasn't
being petulant and screaming at his own players for missing a bad pass that he,
Ince, had
made.
Now, Collima, the bald Italian referee. How could he deny England's goal for an elbow
by Shearer and not see Hutchison straight arm Adams? That prevented Adams from jumping, so
that Hutchison could nod the ball down into the goal. One rule for the downtrodden and
another for the skirted.
There will have to be some soul searching at the FA at the woeful state of the team
when called upon to actually play the game. Koogan cannot simply rely on the captains in
the team to play together, there has to be a framework, and Kelvin simply does not have
the nous.
What a poor performance by England in Warsaw, September 8th., '99. Jack
Charlton, of England '66 fame, said that Shearer was rubbish, everyone except two wing
halves were rubbish. Right on, Giraffe, what price England now that Kelvin Koogan is in
charge! Mind you, what kind of decision is a card in the penalty area and then a goal kick
to the recipient's side? (This GEther Benko would fit right into the Ottawa, Ontario,
refereeing arena). I hope UEFA look hard at this transparently obvious level of
incompetence. Of course, they didn't.
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