Euro Watch-Germans pull it late and The Fabregas Show

The finals are here with Germany taking on Spain.The Germany Turkey game was full of goals but Germany came out on top at the end with a 3-2 win.Spain beat Russia with Fabregas showing off some great football with his sweet passes and play making.Hopefully he gets a start in the final because he truly changed the game when he came on in the second half for the injured David Villa.

Euro Preview-Germany VS Turkey

Tonight's the big semifinal game as Germany take on Turkey.Most of the Turkish stars are out with injuries and suspension but they do seem to have the determination to go all the way.The Germans who beat Portugal seem to have regained their form and are sure to go all out to reach the finals where they will play either Spain or Russia.

Euro Watch-Spanish Prevail

Spain beat Italy in a penalty shoot out this morning sending them into the semifinals.Spain had some great chances throughout the game and deservedly won the penalty shoot out with Spain keeper Iker Casillas making some magnificent saves.

No football tonight but the semifinals start tomorrow and here is the schedule.

Germany VS Turkey
Russia VS Spain

The Germans are likely candidates for the finals but Turkey have caused upsets all the way and they have the determination and fighting spirit to go all the way.The first Russia and Spain played in the group stages Spain won 4-1 so lets see if history is about to repeat itself when they play again in the Semifinals of Euro 2008.

Euro Watch-Russians prevail

This morning the Dutch mercenary Guus Hiddink saw his Russian side beat the in form Holland 3-1 after extra time.The Dutch played quite poorly and paid for their poorness.Russian Andrei Arshavin had a fantastic game and scored a goal as well.

Tonight its the last match of the quarter finals as Spain play the world cup winners Italy.Italy were lucky to even qualify for the quarter finals so lets see if lucks on their side again tonight...

Euro Watch-German and Turkish delight

Hey everyone,sorry for the late update...had a 5 a side game yesterday and spent today looking for good food around KL.Anyways 2 teams have reached the next stage of the competition.Germany showed their class and finished of Portugal 3-2 and Bastian Schweinsteiger scored a wonder goal as well.Turkey and Croatia played a dull and boring game up til the last 2 minutes of extra time.Croatia scored first then Turkey came right back on the 121 st minute taking the game to penalties which Turkey won after Croatia missed 3 shots.The Turkish goalie Rüştü Reçber was absolutely amazing last night.

Tonight the two Dutch coaches take on each other as Holland play Russia which is sure to be a cracker of a game....

Some Arsenal news for you,according to 2 rubbish newspaper in Spain called Marca and El Mundo Adebayor has put in a transfer request and wants to leave Arsenal.It also stated that he is about to join Barcalona and Arsenal have started looking for a replacement with Roque Santa Cruz in mind.Hmm well i think this sounds like absolute shite cause even if we did eventually lose Adebayor we could do better than Roque Santa Cruz.I mean what the fuck?Roque Santa Cruz....come on he's a decent player but there are loads of other better players around.Lets bring in Huntelaar or Podolski or even David Villa instead.Is it just me or is Arsenal falling apart...Are we becoming push overs?Here's a list of this seasons raid casualties:-

Flamini-Left for AC Milan
Hleb-Wanted by Barcelona and AC Milan
Adebayor-Wanted by Barcelona ,AC Milan and Inter Milan
Van Persie-Wanted by Inter Milan
Clichy-Wanted by AS Roma and Juventus

This is a sad state of affairs....

Euro Watch-Oh Sweden oh Sweden

Sweden failed to qualify after losing 2-0 to Russia.Guus Hiddink's Russian team fought hard with Arshavin coming back into the squad and making a big difference.Spain beat Greece 2-1 with Dela Red playing some amazing football.Tonight its the start of the quarterfinals.

Thursday 19 June 2008
		Portugal		VS	Germany
Friday 20 June 2008
		Croatia		VS	Turkey
Saturday 21 June 2008
		Netherlands		VS	Russia
Sunday 22 June 2008
		Spain		VS	Italy

Euro Watch-Goodbye France

Italy booked a place in the next round by beating France 2-0 and as Romania lost 2-0 to Holland.Its sad really that Romania didnt qualify after all their hard work,the Italians will be happy since they qualified even after some terrible performances from their aging side.Tonight Spain play Greece and Sweden play Russia.

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Euro Watch and Aaron Ramsey

Got kinda bored of the format i was using to talk about the Euro games previously.So ive decided to take it more casually and kick it.So far Portugal and Turkey from Group A and Croatia and Germany from Group B have qualified for the next round.Turkey showed determination to come back from 2-0 to will 2-3 against the Czech Republic and Germany relied on a super freekick from Micheal Ballack to beat Austria 1-0 and qualify.Tonight the members of the Group of Death kick off with Holland vs Romania and Italy vs France.Holland have already qualified and appear to be favorites to win the competition.

Some Arsenal news for today as well.Afew days ago Arsenal made their first signing of the season,the 17 year old Welsh wonderkid Aaron Ramsey.Ramsey who was being chased by Everton,Man united and Arsenal was said to be joining Man United when all of a sudden he decided to join the Gunners instead.Well good on ya soon!Welcome to the club...

Day 6

Day 5
Croatia(2) Vs Germany(1)
Croatia comfortably beat a lack lustered German side to edge closer to the next stage.The German side were hot favorites to win the competition.
Key Players
Ivica Olić-A Croatian striker with lots of determination and spirit but never enough goals.He scored yesterday and its truly remarkable when he scores.
Stipe Pletikosa-The Croatian goal keeper made some wonderful saves yesterday to help his contry to the second round.

Austria(1) Vs Poland(1)
The game that ended a stalemate but could have been all entirely different if Austria didnt miss the amount of chances they had on goal.
Key Players
Ivica Vastic-Came on as a sub in the game and scored a penalty
Artur Boruc-The Polish goal keeper who made some wonder saves and undoubtedly earned himself the man of the match last night.
Roger Guerreiro-Brazilian born Polish striker who showed how samba is like in Poland.Definitely a player to watch out for in the future.

Tonight the group of death play with Romania taking on Italy and France taking on Holland.Its gonna be an exciting display of football tonight so dont miss out on it.

Day 3,4,5 Round up

Day 3
Romania(0) Vs France(0)
A dull and boring game where France played absolutely terrible.Credit to Romania who played some excellent holding football
Key Players
Franck Ribery-Played some great passes and made some awesome forward runs that caused Romania alot of trouble.
Team Romania-The dark horses of the group kept frustrating France all the way and it will be interesting to see them in their next few games.

Netherlands(3) Vs Italy(0)
Hands down the best game of the tournament so far with Holland playing some wonderful short pass counter attacking football.An old and tired Italian side could not cope with youthfulness and hunger of the Dutch.
Key Players
Wesley Sneijder-Scored a wonder goal and played some magnificent football all around.
Alessandro Del Piero-Came on late and had some good chances.Should get a start in the next game hopefully.

Day 4
Spain(4) Vs Russia(1)
Spain totally dominated the game and demolished Russia.The Russians do deserve credit for their passion and determination to fight.We will definitely see Spain in the latter stages of the competition.
Key Players
David Villa-Hat-trick Hero Villa showed his first class finishing and will be a big contender for the Golden Boot.
Roman Pavlyuchenko-Russia's goal scorer was a livewire the entire match and got his reward with a great goal in the 86th minute..

Sweden(2) Vs Greece(0)
The holders Greece were soundly beaten by an old and experienced Sweden side.Greece played some horrible football and its time they change their tactics that mainly consists of passing the ball around in defense for atleast 3-5 minutes before shooting off a high ball to a striker which always seems to miss the pass.
Key Players
Henrik Larsson-The iconic Swede was recalled to the squad for the tournament and was an integral part of the team.
Fredrik Ljungberg-Former Arsenal winger and my favorite player had a great match proving that he still has the pace creativity to do wonders
Zlatan Ibrahimovic-Scored a wonderful goal and had some good attempts throughout the game.Oh yes and his goal was his first in 3 years....suprising!!!

Day 5
Portugal(3) Vs Czech Republic(1)
Portugal qualified for the second round after finishing off Czech Republic.
Key Players
Cristiano Ronaldo-Scored a goal and then set up two more.Had a great match yesterday and will have many more to come in the next round.

Switzerland(1) Vs Turkey(2)
Hosts Switzerland are out of the tournament after their side lost to Turkey who got a late winner from Arda Turan.

Tonight Croatia take on Germany and hosts Austria play Poland.

Euro 2008 begins

Its Day 3 at the Euro 2008 competition which is hosted jointly by Austria and Switzerland.The groups for this year are as follows-

Group A
Switzerland
Czech Republic
Portugal
Turkey

Group B
Austria
Croatia
Germany
Poland

Group C
Netherlands
Italy
Romania
France

Group D
Greece
Sweden
Spain
Russia

Group C has been nicknamed the group of death which properly suites it since its being occupied by the world cup holders Italy,world cup runners up France ,European bad boys Holland and the somewhat underdogs Romania.This is definitely an exiting group to watch.

Day 1
Switzerland(0) Vs Czech Republic(1)
The Czechs came out as winners in this game but credits due to the Swiss who played admirably and lost their enthusiastic and influential captain Alexander Frei to an injury early in the game.He will be out for the rest of the tournament.
Key Players
Phillipe Senderos-The Arsenal defender managed to handle the tall Jan Koller well rendering him useless till he got substituted.
Tranquillo Barnetta-The attacking midfielder caused lots of problems for the Czechs.
Václav Svěrkoš-Scored the only goal of the game and appears to be a hot player for the Czechs right now.

Portugal(2) Vs Turkey(0)
Portugal were favorites in this game and they showed some excellent class finishing off a temperamental and lackluster Turkish side.
Key Players
Pepe-Excellent first goal and is one to watch in this young Portugal side
Cristiano Ronaldo-As always performed well and played some excellent passes even though his mind is probably on Real Madrid.
Sanli Tuncay-The Turkish striker played well but could have done better.Should be interesting when he faces a weaker opponent.


Day 2
Austria(0) Vs Croatia(1)
Croatia got an early penalty and cruised the first half.The second half was all Austria who showed their guts and were unlucky to come out empty handed.
Key Players
Luka Modrić-A 4 minute penalty that one the game and some superb individual play makes this attacking midfielder a must to keep an eye on.
Ivica Olić-Was hands down man of the match providing Croatia will all the right attacking balls.
Team Austria-The entire team showed their determination to do well despite being one of the Underdogs of the tournament.With this kind of attitude they will prove to be tough opponents in group B.

Germany(2) Vs Poland(0)
Germany coolly finished off debutants Poland to shoot to the top of Group B.
Key Players
Lukas Podolski-The Polish born Germany striker emotionally finished off Poland with two great goals.
Artur Boruc-The Poland and Celtic goalkeeper even though he let 2 in,made some great saves and will likely be the player who will save Poland in the upcoming matches.

Day 3
Day 3's matched are between the residents of Group C aka THE GROUP OF DEATH....
France play Romania and Holland play world cup holders Italy.

9

I recently came across this really cool animated short called 9.Cant really explain what its about but its worth a watch.Its a 3D animated short film which is made to look like its done with stop motion styled animation with simple characters that resemble rag dolls.Its about 10 minutes long and was nominated for loads of Short film awards like the Animex award as well as the Florida Film Festival.This short film was so captivating and interesting that a full movie will be made and released sometime this year starring Elijah Wood(Lord of the Rings),Jennifer Connelly(Blood Diamond) and Crispin Glover(Charlie's Angels).I cant wait for this one to come out.