The Official Euro 2004 Thread

At last, an interesting thread worth commenting on.

Strange how you've picked England/France as the last two, as I've been thinking the same for the past few weeks. England are under no pressure and I think they will emerge a bit of a dark horse this 2004. Owen was playing great for Liverpool recently and Rooney plays his best for England. This time, there's a quiet before the storm and I think Rooney will start the brewing.

This is not a biased England's view, but just a feeling.

Winner : England
Runners Up : France
How Well Will Ing-er-lund Do? : Win
Dark Horses : England
Top Scorer : Owen
Emerging Superstar : Rooney (if he's not already)

Winner:Portugal
Runner-up:Chzech Republic
How well will England do ?: 3rd
dark horse:Spain
Top scorer:Henry
Emerging superstar: Rafael van der Vaart

The dutch team will give one good performance (against Germany) and then it's over for them.

Rob.

Hi All

Winner:Spain
Runner-up: France
How well will England do ?: 3rd
dark horse:Czech Republic
Top scorer:Milan Baros (50/1 if you fancy a flutter)
Emerging superstar: Rafael van der Vaart

Steve

Winner : France
Runners Up : Holland
How Well Will Ing-er-lund Do? : Win Group B but get kicked out of tournament due to fans celebrating too er vigorously
Dark Horses : Germany
Top Scorer : Van Nist
Emerging Superstar : Dunno, but he'll be signed up by a Premiership club and be crap all next season

Winner : France
Runners Up : Portugal
How Well Will Ing-er-lund Do? : Semi finals
Dark Horses : Holland
Top Scorer : Prso
Emerging Superstar : Boumsong

I am a huge admirer of van de vaart but surely he has already emerged? It seems like he's been around for years even with a year out when he did his knee.

I really think The Netherlands are gret value at 15/2 -- they have a reasonably solid defence (unlike France), a fabulous midfield (Sniejder, van de Vaart, Davids) and one of the world's best goalscorers. What's not to like?

Matthew

Van Persie is not going to be there*, so Alex's doom-laden predictions can, mercifully, be ignored.


*Might still out-play Heskey of course.

Matthew,

Holland is a bunch of overpaid players not a team.

Rob.

Winners Italy
Runners Up France

Group stage placings

France 9pts
Croatia 4 pts
England 2 pts
Switzerland 1 pt

As you're all Football loving, paper buying people, can someone let me know if you see the Euro 2004 Canon ads anywhere (the ones with lots of painted faces) as my girlfriend is in them.



Stephen

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_Winner : Takes it all
_Runners Up : Tim Henman
_How Well Will Ing-er-lund Do? : Knocked out in Straight sets
_Dark Horses :Batman
_Top Scorer : Carol Vorderman
_Emerging Superstar : Me!

I know lots about Football, I do.



Stephen

Stephen

You write for Private Eye under the pseudonym "Sally Jockstrap" don't you? Do I win five pounds?

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By tipping England to go out in the group stages, they will (inevitably) defeat the French 6-0 in the final.

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That's what I think.

Winners - France
Runners up - Spain
Engalnd - QF
Dark Horses - Sweden/Czech Republic
Top Scorer - Henry
Emerging Superstar - Rooney

Mike

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Originally posted by rodwsmith:
Stephen

You write for Private Eye under the pseudonym "Sally Jockstrap" don't you? Do I win five pounds?

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Rod

You mean I could get paid for writing bollocks?

Regards

Stephen

Winners: Spain
RU: Netherlands
England: Semi finals, if we're lucky
Dark horses: Czechs
Top Scorer: Van Nistelrooy
Emerging superstar: David James!

Winner: Spain (on pens)
RU: France
England: Will draw all group games
Dark Horses: Czech Republic
Top Scorer: Zidane
Emerging Superstar: Steven Gerrard
Tournament Donkey: David James
Lucky Bastard: Me, I've got tickets for the final

Winner: France
Runners Up: Portugal
How Well Will Ing-er-lund Do?: WGAF. And it's Ing-uh-lund. Most of you can't prounce the letter "r."
Dark Horses: Denmark
Top Scorer: Henry
Emerging Superstar: Some Portuguese bloke

PLUS
Who will I support in the usual absence of Scotland: Sweden (for the King of Kings)
Who will I lose money on, as I do in every international competition: Spain

Davie

Davie,

How do you keep up with this stuff this side of the pond? I've given up -- coverage here is just abysmal. Still, after reading this, I should be all set.

Dan

Dan:

I'm part of that strange tribe of US-based fans who scan obscure TV channels (Foc Sports World is the best) in the wee hours. I also read sportinglife.com, football365.com and a selection of Brit papers online. And I go to British pubs that show games on satellite TV.

Davie

I thought Spain looked quite good. I think they will get better and they will score with Torres, Raul and Morientes.

Any side with Valeron on the bench has to be taken very seriously.

Portugal looked shite though.

Where does Germany sit in all of this? I suppose I'll casually follow along to see how they fare.

Fingers crossed Germany will be very bad. The rest of the world will enjoy this immensely as the Germans have annoyingly won far too often in the past.

The Netherlands Vs Germany is a bigger and nastier rivalry than Brazil Vs Argentina or England Vs Germany and will be essential viewing.

Matthew

The other question:

Will the Germans follow the awful advice given by their team doctor (seen in Alex's link)?

Spain won?

Bet's looking good

Yowza

P

Sorely tempted on Greece to beat Portugal at 3 : 1 but didn't take it. Phoowee