Posted by John Lynch on June 10, 2008 
It happens every two years … a veritable orgy of high-quality soccer. In 2006 it was the World Cup, this time around it is the European Championship.
So far, the Germans look efficient, the French were underwhelming, the Italian Diving Squad choked (badly), and the Dutch … well they just dominated the Italians in their 3-0 win yesterday.
So, any predictions on the finalists?
The Spanish are also looking fairly useful against the Russians (3-0 as I type). Could be a good tournament!
My prediction: my students will be less than 100% efficient in getting work done until their favourite teams are eliminated.
Ah. Girly kick-ball. I predict that I couldn’t stay awake through ten minutes of the best game. BTW- There are no ties in real sports.
Avoid the troll, folks.
My son, who’s studying in Italy, says the locals wrote off the Italian eleven long before their embarassing loss to the Oranje. My heart’s with Spain … they’re overdue for a major tournament win. But my head’s with Germany.
I got Greece in the office sweepstake. Judging on last nights stuffing by the Swedes, they won’t be contenders. Heart says Spain/Netherlands, head says Germany.
There has been some truly excellent football thus far, but I couldn’t choose between portugal and germany to get to the final let alone who they will face. I have a feeling that the dutch will win their group and whoever comes second (my money would be on italy) will resurrect their fortunes and knock out the spanish in the semi and lose to germany or portugal.
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