Quoteshortfatfanny QuoteMax'sKansasCity Quoteshortfatfanny ...cool,and the swiss guys (un-)checking the length of the hammer throws probably robbed Betty Heidler a medal. what a farce. Edit : now they´re checking the length with the good old rope...´cause they´ve found an unverified one in their system. respect. Edit 2 : now she´s ranked after the competition on rank 3. that´s true
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Is it true that NBC doesn't show some important events like 100 meter final, because they "doesn't fit american audience"?
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Two main candidates for final in men's volleyball - Poland and USA are out after quarter finals. Bulgaria in semi-final. WTF?
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Quotemr_dja Kirani James from Grenada was quite possibly the best example of "The Olympic Spirit" that I've ever seen. After his semi-final race he went to the runner from S. Africa with the prosthetic legs and quickly traded "bibs" with him. Even the commentators were mentioning how they had never seen that happen before. Then, after he won the Gold medal, I'm sure I saw h
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Rainer Bonhof from Germany is the only player who won Euro twice in 1972 and 1980 and he didn't play any game during this tournaments. 12 Spanish players have chance to be winners for the second time, but everyone of them played at least one game.
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Spain - Italy 0:1
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QuoteSilver Dagger Quotewindmelody Maybe the germans were a bit too young. It is true, it was like a boygroup against a rock'n'roll band. Time is on their side. They were the youngest team in the competition. Wait till the World Cup in Brazil - they will present their Let It Bleed! But they need to find another striker who feels good in their style of playing. Gomez scored 3 goals in 2 group
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Quotecarlitosbaez no team in the world have won Euro Cup, World Cup and now finalist, this is historic!!! Germany 1972, 1974, 1976
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Portugal showed less than Italy and Croatia against Spain. Spain is still very unconvincing and shows boring defensive football (they have the ball, but they don't attack - it's defensive football for me). They played great in 2008 with two strikers, with Del Bosque they are just effective, but it works well. Zinedine Zidane was the last player who scored against Spain in knockout stage.
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I visited Berlin yesterday to see Jack White and I have to admit that fan-zone near Branderburger Tor is really huge. It must look impressive when Germans play.
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Picking quarterfinal winners wasn't so difficult, only England and Italy seemed to be equal. No chances for weak group A teams and little chance when you play against Spain. But i agree with your prediction and I hope Germans are able to beat Spain. Can't watch this boring football.
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Quotekleermaker Quoteszef Quotekleermaker Szef, I read an article in a Dutch paper that the boss of all referees, Pierluigi Collina of the UEFA, has declared that it was a goal. He didn't say anything about offside at all. The essence of Collina's quote: "It was a 100% goal, the ball had passed the line. It was a human fault, alas." Probably he was just talking about goal situa
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QuoteSoulPlunderer The 2008 tournament was pretty good too, bar the drab final. I suppose 24 teams mightn't be bad in terms of letting teams who don't often get a chance in these tournaments but if they really wanted to shake up the line-up it would make more sense to just not seed the qualifying draw so rigidly. So it's pretty obvious that this is for money. We all saw how abject Ireland were -
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Quotekleermaker Szef, I read an article in a Dutch paper that the boss of all referees, Pierluigi Collina of the UEFA, has declared that it was a goal. He didn't say anything about offside at all. The essence of Collina's quote: "It was a 100% goal, the ball had passed the line. It was a human fault, alas." Probably he was just talking about goal situation. Offside was obvious,
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QuoteGravityBoy Quoteszef Not offside for me, not according to the normal modern interpretation of the law (which I hate). The player in the offside position was not involved in the interchange down the wing. Lots of nonsense about "phases of play". But he would not be given offside in most games (you do sometimes get an understandably confused official). Actually he was i
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QuoteSoulPlunderer Very high quality tournament so far. Not many poor matches and almost all of the teams have looked competitive (ahem, Ireland). The Euros tend to be better than the World Cup. Unfortunately money is the most important thing so in France we will have 24 teams. Quality won't be so high anymore. So far for me this is the best tournament since Euro 2000.
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Spain is boring, slow and unconvincing. I want France to win. One bad game doesn't mean that team is weak.
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Busquets is always ready to cheat.
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QuoteStoneage I think every coach at this level is overrated and overpaid. Many teams would do better without a coach. And all these ridiculous expensive suits - it's a football game not a fashion parade. Give them a tracksuit each. Free to keep after the tournament! France didn't have coach after Zidane left in 2006 till Laurent Blanc was hired in 2010. They didn't have good time then
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What are the speculations about new coach in Holland? Any names?
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True. Its UEFA national team coefficient ranking system ranking not FIFA World Ranking, my mistake. And two last rules: Fair play and lottery exists but they are useless, because every team must have different ranking coefficient. Another strange thing
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I think Premier League is the only big european league that uses goal difference as second factor. There is also strange rule in Euro and not many people know about it: imagine two teams finished group stage with the same amount of points and exactly the same goal difference and the result between these teams was a draw. If they played against each other in first or second round then FIFA World R
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Which games do you want to watch live in the last round? My list is: Poland - Czech Republic Portugal - Netherlands Croatia - Spain England - Ukraine
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We had a national debate today in Poland. Dozens of people talking whole day in radio and TV. The question was: which goalkeeper should play against Czech Republic. Players already know what the decision is but it is a top secret until the lineups are revealed. Whoever was chosen there will be additional pressure on him. The best moment of today was Irish fans singing. Amazing.
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Gomez is great striker. If he has good assistance he is unstopable. But talking about Bundesliga strikers i think that Lewandowski and Huntelaar are able to give more to the team than him.
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Quotefirebird kleermaker, i don't think the coach is the problem. I think the problem is that the Netherlands have no good defensiv players at all. None of them is close to international top level. Not much the coach can do about this. That's true, but they have the same average defence as 2 years ago when they was able to reach final using their great offensive potential. Main problem is that
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Although there's still chance for Holland and Germany still can be eliminated i think after two rounds nobody believes in Holland high victory against Portugal.
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Kleermaker you have your own strange definition of offside. Why don't you want to accept the rules?
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