No, but I had the scorecast - Charisteas + 1-0 to Greece = 50/1 
Well done the feta cheese eating, hiding in horses to win wars, monkeys.
Stand by for a LOAD of UEFA initiatives following this (and a Monaco/Porto Euro final) theres no way they want this to happen again.
A big shout to the Portugese TV director for showing the pitch invader (and the old bill or is it old guilleme? beating the snot out of him). In England they cut away from this sort of thing and make pious noises about it not being the done thing. As far as I am concerned it’s almost as good as a dog on the pitch.
Still…now its all over we can say that it’s been a bit crap really hasn’t it?
Got no cite on that. That was in 1994. I remember there were some equally vague and ridiculous references to AIDS or something but it was quite obvious what the real reason was. Another cup they went all crazy about the players keeping their shirts stuck in their shorts. I just want them to keep their little grubby hands off soccer and stop trying to sterilise and streamline it to please puritan morals and commercial interests. Like there isn’t enough money in soccer already.
I think it’s great Greece won. I look forward to my vacation in Greece later this summer.
The Irish commentators were being rather pious about it as well. They even quoted Thatcher’s line about not giving “the oxygen of publicity”. I thought it was the best part of the 90 minutes myself
Well done to Greece, I just wish they’d shown that cheating fecker Deco crying afterward instead of Ronaldo
The shot from the goalcam was sweet. Has anyone checked out the website advertised on his shirt? For the life of me, I can’t remember it.
Speaking of camerawork, did anyone else notice the blowup doll wearing Figo’s jersey and errrrr no pants? I thought that was particularly tasteless. Thank goodness we didn’t see any action shots, though.
Has anyone else noticed the entire Greek squad’s surnames all ended in “s”- and what’s more all their first names did too. Now you might think this is a coincidence but I don’t believe that. In the days when Wales had a decent rugby team and winning lots of games we used to put out a team consisting mainly of players called Williams, Jones, Evans and Davies - so I think that’s the secret. I’ve already patented the idea and I’m going to suggest to Sven fot the next World Cup all his players add an “s” to the end of their names. Waynes Rooneys, Michaels Owens etc.
It can’t fail.
I would also like to present my award of “Saying the bleedin obvious” to Peter Reid, that well known TV pundit and sometime football manager.
Guess what Sven-Göran’s nickname is in Sweden?
“Svennis”
Raises the question as to whose side he was really on. :dubious:
hehehehehe
Thanks for the laugh, Vetch*:: filling in the new Dutch team:: * Edwins vans ders Sars, Clarences Seedorfs, Jaaps Stams, Ruuds vans Nistelrooijs, etcs, etcs.
Congratulations, Greece
It’s strange you don’t find beauty in art.
I was there and never heard anything like this. I’m not believing this.
If I have to appreciate artistic diving, I’ll watch a diving competition.
Sure, that’s all we need. Every publicity hungry wanna-be-celeb and minor company getting the idea that a sure way of getting on TV is to interrupt someone else’s event and run around shouting “look at me, look at me!” The reason they don’t show them on TV in the UK is because the event organisers ask them no to. Otherwise you can say goodbye to any televised outside event ever being completed without constant interruptions. Once you’ve seen one half-clothed idiot, you’ve seen them all.
I don’t know why they didn’t take Deco off. He spent the entire match being a greedy little ***** and attempting glory shots from 30 yards. I’m amazed any of his team mates passed him the ball, I wouldn’t have if he’d been in my team.
The tournament as a whole was poor. The teams that should have, didn’t. The teams that can’t, made sure no-one else could either. Greece deserved to win, but it just shows how dreadful everyone else was. They only scored 7 goals the entire tournament out of a total of 21 shots on target. How rubbish is that?
http://www.johnnyjump.com I believe…
In that case, why didn’t the Latvians get to the final? …
Only the goalie spoils it…
Oh no…please tell me the guy was not an American…
Not to mention, what a crappy website! Yeesh. :wally
But that’s the point, the whole Karma of the team is upset.
Everyone has to have the right name, one wrong name and the whole thing falls flat.
Can anyone please tell me what I’m talking about?
Well, it’s official since yesterday. Dick Advocaat is resigning as coach of the Dutch national team. Speculations are already heating up on who will be the new coach. Some of the names dropped so far are: Marco van Basten (I would like that!), Co Adriaanse, Foppe de Haan (see Coldfire’s post above), Wim van Hanegem, and some people are even speculating that a foreigner with some knowledge of Dutch football (like Morten Olsen) might be chosen.
Personally I would prefer Wim van Hanegem or Marco van Basten. They both already work for the Dutch Football Association, so they wouldn’t have to leave a club. The worst possible choice would be a foreigner like Olsen, or god forbid Erik Gerets. Also, please, if anyone mentions Huub Stevens I will have to hurt them. 
Maybe we can hire Ruud Michels, and just use him as a kind of figurehead, while some one else does the actual coaching. The Dutch media would be in too much awe of Michels to criticize him. Then again, maybe we can dig up Ernst Happel, do some voodoo, and hire his zombie. Can’t be worse than some of the other coaches we have seen.
In accordance with the insightful earlier posts, we should of course hire Marcos vans Bastens or Wims vans Hanegems.
Given the vehemence with which he threw the Barcelona flag at Figo I think we can assume he’s from Catalonia!
At least they’re only throwing flags at him now - they were throwing pig’s heads.
Owl - who would think it perfectly reasonable to throw an entire pig at Campbell.