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Sick as a parrot

June 21st, 2008 · Posted by Skuds in Life · No Comments · Life

With hindsight it was, perhaps, inevitable that the team which spared England the heartbreak of going to the Euro 2008 tournament only to crash out on penalties at the quarter-final should crash out of the quarter final themselves. On penalties.  With £25 of work sweepstakes riding on them I was rooting for Croatia, so it was a bit of a disappointment.  Actually the whole game was a bit of a disappointment with all the excitement in the last 5 minutes of extra time.  Nowhere near as good as the Germany/Portugal game.

I’ve got a lot of sympathy for Croatia: the game had a few parallels with West Ham’s FA Cup final against Liverpool when we were all set to win and then an equaliser at the end of extra time forced penalties which we messed up, and I remember how that felt.  Due respect to Turkey though – they didn’t play too well but they never gave up and it paid off for them. Be interesting to see how they do against Germany.

My prediction of a Croatia v Holland final has totally gone to pot now.  I reckon its going to be Holland and Germany now, which would be fun.  FWIW I think Spain will beat Italy, Holland will beat Russia, and we should get a fantastic semi-final as a result.  Germany should beat Turkey.  Fingers crossed that the rest of the games will be better than tonight’s.

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