Euro 2012

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..starts 2 weeks today.

As this normally attract wider attention than the normal Football Focus crowd dear old admin has allowed me to create a dedicated Euro 2012 thread for:

- Views

- Tips

- Post match analysis

- Pubs showing

- etc, etc

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Can't see far beyond the obvious.... Spain, Holland and Germany myself. I also expect that Torres will have a decent tournamnt with Villa out. I think England will get through their group and then lose to Spain.

[woodrot]

Germany

[Loz]

Greece will crash out early.

And now, back to the football.

[kpc]

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> Can't see far beyond the obvious.... Spain,

> Holland and Germany myself. I also expect that

> Torres will have a decent tournamnt with Villa

> out. I think England will get through their group

> and then lose to Spain.

Add Italy to those three for the other semi-finalist.

Will stick my neck out and say Germany to beat Netherlands in final (should put the kibbosh on that then).

[El Pibe]

Hiustory says Spain can't possibly do 3-in-a-row, though obviously heart says otherwise.

On paper still the best side by a country mile, but negative nancy chelsea shows how dour determination coupled with shit football can win a tournament.

So ENgland to win it then....

...only joking. I reckon Germany too as trite and cliched as that prediction is.

[maxxi]

With sympathetic refs the Dutch could kick (as in lumps-out-of-everyone-else) their way to victory... but Schweinsteiger and co. will probably engineer some kind of Deutsches Wiederaufleben...

[El Pibe]

They tried that in the final of the world cup. If they'd played football they'd have won it.

[MrBen]

I loved the Dutch in the World Cup until their cynical antics in the final.

I'm with the Germans too. England are 4th favourites to win which I thought must have been a mistake.

[El Pibe]

Probably just reflects the ability of the English public for optimistic self-delusion.

[Alan Medic]

I'm going for Irel............France, as a good outside bet.

[camberwell70]

Goooooaaaaaalll

 

[Alan Medic]

Wrong thread?

[Salsaboy]

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[Alan Medic]

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[red devil]

Telegraph's Euro 2012 Fantasy Football...

[maxxi]

The Dutch and the Germans to contest the final (the Dutch kicking Spain out of it in the semis as the ref's not Howard Webb) and the most boring final on record to go to penalties which the Dutch will win 5-4... with Schweinsteiger missing again.

England to bow out with two losses (France, Sweden) and a draw (Ukraine).

[BrandNewGuy]

The Spanish sports newspaper Marca produced a wonderful online interactive graphic for the World Cup and they've done the same for Euro 2012. It's a thing of beauty and amazingly simple, so you can throw away those crappy posters from the papers that no-one fills in anyway...

[Alan Medic]

That's neat.

[Jah Lush]

England out early. Germany V Spain final. Germans clinch it on penalties. Bastardos!

[????]

mmmmm....well a win

[Mick Mac]

Ireland look a decent team. Have just checked their group and with Spain Italy and Croatia...might be good fun but no cigar. Bit like 1988

[Undisputedtruth]

I was petty much alarmed by the number of Liverpool players featured in yesterday's game. Especially as Liverpool had a mediocre season.

[red devil]

The Socceraid match was far more entertaining than the dearth served up by England and Norway, any chance of getting Robbie Wiliams in the problem left wing area?..

''Fergie, Fergie, sign him up...''

 

[Jah Lush]

"He's only beaten David Seaman in goal." Well, quite. Nayim from the halfway line springs to mind and Ronaldinho's free-kick at the World Cup as well. Good goal though.