Skuds’ Sister’s Brother

Looking back, it could be that England’s failure to qualify for Euro 2008 was a major factor in making the whole tournament so enjoyable.  There was no need to worry about how we would do or how other results might effect us, so we could just take it all as it came.

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How many times have I sat watching football on the BBC, hoping that an act of God would strike and shut Mark Lawrenson up? 1  Well tonight it actually happened.  Storms in Vienna disrupted the transmission of pictures of the semi-final.  After a while the Beeb played the Five Live commentary over an apology message, then [...]

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Well I certainly can’t claim to have crystal balls, not after any of my predictions this year.  I was sure Croatia would beat Turkey, and sure Holland would beat Russia.  I was also quite confident that Labour would win in Broadfield South and Lewis Hamilton would win the Canadian Grand Prix.  With such an infallible [...]

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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 [...]

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After reading this story about Swiss TV making a cock-up with the lyrics to the German national anthem there was something bugging me; something obvious but I just couldn’t work out what it was.  Today it suddenly came to me: Swiss TV displays the lyrics to national anthems at football matches as sub-titles! How strange.  [...]

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Tonight at 7:30 there is the Broadfield neighbourhood forum just up the road (topic: Broadfield parks and green spaces).  On the other hand, at 7:45 Portugal and Germany kick-off in the first quarter final.  Not a difficult decision to make…

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How on Earth could I have forgotten about the France/Italy game tonight when I said I was free for a Labour party meeting tonight?    I’m now in a dilemma about whether to record it for when I get home or just watch the highlights later on.   On paper it should be a really good game.  [...]

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Many thanks to the Netherlands for providing some top entertainment today. Not only have their games been tremendously watchable, but they have now made sure that next week’s France/Italy game has the potential to be a real battle. The game was not as one-sided as the 4-1 result might imply: France [...]

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Give me an R, give me an O…  and so on.  Croatia’s famous victory over Germany puts them at the top of group B and, more importantly, puts me one step closer to winning the office sweepstake.  Slaven Bilic’s boys done good!

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The Dutch were great yesterday, but Spain were magnificent today when they took Russia apart. I was worried that a lack of home nations in the finals might make it hard to keep an interest in Euro 2008, but now I’m hooked.

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