Well, normally this type of event is quite interesting... You
follow till the end.
The Euro 2004, the WC 2006... Even the WC 2002 in
Japan / Korea was more interesting... This Euro 2008 seems like
rather low key and has never got to the height of good... at best
just average... I think i missed more than half of the telecast,
probably only watch 1/4 of it and a few matches i didn't even
bother to watch till the end cos with teams like Switzerland,
Austria, Greece, Poland... it was really boring... The football was
poor... France was poor, Italy was boring, The Czech Rep, Croatia,
Sweden, Romania... all defensive styles. Russia only had one good
match and against the Dutch... The Dutch were probably the only
exciting team to watch at Euro 08... and i couldn't belief
this team actually lost to Russia who were beaten in their Semi
final in such a pathetic fashion that i felt
disgusted by even staying up to catch it...
Unlike at the WC where we got unexpected and unknown qualities
African nations coming out to make a name for themselves for the
first time by showing no fear against big European and S
American powers with their athleticism and brand of attacking
foorball that made the world stand up and take note of them...
This Euro 08 has just been plain boring... Even the finalist
Spain and Germany are somewhat uninteresting... Spain had easy
games all the way to the final and the most difficult match they
had was against a lacklustre Italian side who they couldn't even
beat in 120 mins... Germany... well, they are not bad, they have
played as systematic as the Germans normally do only without
the style as usual...
After this tournament, I can't belief UEFA president
Platini still want to expand it to 24 teams next... and he
don't think it will affect the quality of the competition... What
next, Bulgaria, Scotland, Ukraine, N Ireland, Norway,
Wales... He don't think they are going to dilute the
competition?
Well, the next joint host are Ukraine and Poland... so we can
expect more of this from the host countries...
