Good point. And in which alternative universe is Heskey a better striker than Kevin Phillips, who spent the entire tournament on the bench? Is it me or can the man just not control the ball? He missed one borderline sitter last night and ended a good build up by failing to get a pass under control.
Also, anyone who thinks that Denis Wise is a good holding midfielder at international level has got to be insane.
Bloody fantastic.
Seven goals (two in injury time at the end of the match), one sending-off, two fans invading the pitch. Best match I’ve seen in…well, ever.
It was 1-1 at half-time, 3-2 to Yugoslavia at full time, then Spain amazingly turned it round against the 10 men to win 4-3 in injury time. Marvellous.
Coldfire, how was the wedding? 
2 great matches…
but who is winning our little competition?
Or something.
The wedding was the most pathetic excuse for a party I ever saw. They held it in a glorified snackbar on the beach, and there was one of these local hero bands wearing hawaii shirts and playing shit like “Everybody Needs Somebody To Love” by the Blues Brothers. Drunk, sweaty 58 year old uncles boogying on down.
It’s a good thing all my mates were there to join me in ridiculing the ridiculously ill-timed provincial display of distaste.
We watched the first half in the beach joint next door (which DID have a TV). The second half, my best mate’s pregnant wife (who remained home) kept us up-to-date per mobile phone.
It was a day of bad luck overall, because the match I WAS able to see (Spain - Yugo), I missed as well. A complete cable outage in Amsterdam from 18:00 - 21:00. Thank you, UPC. May your shareprice drop even lower.
The highlights were impressive enough. Granted, France fielded a sub-optimal team, but we still beat the world champions. Not by luck, but by impressive football.
Dunno about you, but I have a new tournament favourite. And this time, it’s not merely on sentimental grounds.
Bloody hell, Coldfire, what are your mob on? Four goals from Patrick Kluivert and it’s only 54 minutes in…
Maybe Yugoslavia need to have a player sent off. Never has the saying about 10 men playing better than 11 seemed to be so true as in their case.
Incredible…Netherlands 6 - Yugoslavia 1
How amazing is that??
What’s really amazing is I actually felt sorry for Milosevic. Normally I have no time for the man, but I’ve never seen anyone look so distraught even after scoring a goal (for his own side, I mean).
He didn’t look that chuffed, did he?
The weird thing is, I didn’t think Yugoslavia played particularly badly, it was just that Holland were in incredible form; everything they hit went in.
At least now the nations with the worst hooligans are out.
PS Why are ITV doing a feature on Eusebio with “You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me” as the music?
Yeh, I felt sorry for him too…see the look on his face and you feel like giving him a pat on his back.
Actually, not knowing much about soccer/football, I thought at first that he didn’t make the goal.
You would have thought scoring at least one goal was better than a 6-0.
Another thing I noticed - which may sound stupid, but he kinda resembled Brad Pitt in certain angles and with certain facial gestures. Hmmm…doesn’t matter.
I dunno, I’m watching RTÉ 
Don’t worry about it, I thought at first didn’t either. Because there was so little cheering I thought it had been disallowed for some reason.
Just a couple of questions, if any of you could answer me.
Is Barthez the one who is gonna go play in Manchester United? Is he a good player?
Yes, that’s Barthez. I have absolutely zero interest in French league football, so I haven’t seen much of him apart from internationals. A few years ago I thought he was very good (I seem to recall at least one amazing performance in Le Tournoi in, erm, 1997 I think) but I’ve been less impressed lately. Most of the people who I’ve spoken with about him don’t seem to rate him that highly, though. Man United are never going to be able to replace Schmeichel but the general impression seems to be that they could do better than Barthez.
Thanx for replying ruadh. Do you mean the general impression seems to be that Barthez won’t be doing well in Man-U?
Sorry, just confused with “they could do better than Barthez”.
You mean Schmeichel does better than Barthez (I guess so), or do you mean they (as in Man-U) could do better without Barthez.
That they could find a better keeper than Barthez.
Oooh, France-Spain. I hope this is a good one (the ones I expect to be good never are!). Heart says Spain, head says France. Here we go …
Thanx again Ruadh…and happy watching!!
Gonna see if I can manage to watch till the end, since it’s almost 5am already here.
Unbelievable Barthez save a couple minutes ago!
Hey Coldfire: I caught the Holland vs. Yugoslavia game on the Spanish station here. Great game, you’ve got a great team there. They killed the Yugolsav team in every way posible. Anyway, I have a question for you.
What are some of the chants that the fans use during the games? Could you maybe translate a couple of them for me? I think it’s so cool to see a see of orange, especially since they had the home field in…where was it…Rotterdam?
Thanks.
Adam
I’m still awake…hehe…
But I missed that save from Barthez…was taking a shower to keep myself awake.
Oh well…at least I saw the goal France’s second goal.
Can’t spell his name properly…