Only 4 days until the start of the European Football Championship! Who’s your favourite? Mine is Zidane, of course 
looking forward to the great football party
- claudine -
Football “soccs”, if you ask me.
Talking of real sport, you’ll be in Mesquer Festival, 1st weekend of July?
I know Phil will come, and Trisha too… and you didn’t try out the Thunderbird last year 
PS: for Zinadine The Dane and stuff, you know we got TV, too?
No Ireland this year 
Soccer
Eeeeeewwwwww
I didn’t think you were a big sports fan, LuxPal…
Zoob: sorry, I can’t make it this year.
Stan: I never watch tennis - too boring - and I hate F1, but football is the greatest sport ever 
Yep.
The usual European national teams I support: France, Holland.
Out of curiosity, I’ll watch some of England’s matches, because I do follow the English league and support Liverpool, but the focus will be on specific players’ performances, rather than supporting the team. Somehow I’m not interested in the team as a whole.
It’s ok, I won’t bear you a grudge. Humphhhhhh…
Football is to sports what garklein recorders are to a brassband. 
Henrik Larsson
Sweden got a strong team this year and things look really good right now, which off course is a very bad omen.
It will be some tough weeks of couch camping this summer.
Euro 2004, directly followed by three weeks of Tour de France, then a few weeks rest before the Olympics. I guess I wont be needing much sun screen.
Cheers!
/MarcusR
Now Zoob, you got it coming. We won’t be friends any longer. And you are not very “patriotic” either. Shame on you.
I’m surprised nobody has mentionned Beckham yet. When my daughters talk about football, it’s always about that guy, the metrosexual popfootballteeniestar.
At least we’ll be able to enjoy Bodhran-free sessions for the duration. Every drummer of any kind throughout Europe normally congregate directly under the commentator’s box.
Euro must be ‘real’ championship unlike World Cup,you know,most of my favorite players were from Nigeria and many good players there are now naturalized citizen somewhere else(and a member of the national team there). Now that’s funny. :roll:
To talk about Lance Armstrong whether he can win 6 times champion in a row…
I think that Rui Costa from the Portuguese team is as good a midfielder as Zinedine Zidane. As Ireland are not participating I’ll be watching and cheering for any team that plays England. And let’s leave Blecham out of this discussion (I have to ring up one of my trendy pals and ask about "metrosexual). I really must get out more.
“Metrosexual” is a word that I learnt from my girls. It’s a new lifestyle: a guy who says he’s hetero but dresses and behaves like a homosexual.
:roll:
Portugal has a very good team, at least they did when I last saw them on tv - during the Worldcup 2002. But Zidane is a real artist and it’s a joy to watch his team play. They are so cultivated, almost virtuosos. Allez les Bleus!
Hey, I’m a Liverpool fan, I’m entitled to not mention Beckham.
You should want England to do well, or where’s the glory when you beat them.
a good point. it was so much more satisfying
to beat the World Champions in the 6 nations
this year, rather than just beating England.
But I don’t think it’d matter if the whole world is cheering
England on, it’ll come down to penalties in the quarters or semis
and someone’ll miss (Wayne Rooney?). At which stage he can look forward to
2 years of demonisation in the media until the world cup, where the
whole thing will happen all over again to some other unlucky young
player.
Ah, the joy of not caring.
Seriously, I’ll support England all the way to the
semi finals, then I’ll probably try to leave the
country for a while (I went to Budapest for the Rugby finals)
just in case.
Marko,
Maybe Wayne Rooney can borrow Michael Owen’s white cane and dark glasses when he’s done with them. He missed so many penalties this past year he should be the poster boy for Braille books. Now that Houlier has been shown the door maybe Liverpool will rise again. They should sign David O’Leary as the new manager. Wouldn’t hurt to have a Dub in charge at Anfield.
Eight hours and three minutes to kick off!
Beer in the cooler, a box of assorted Pringles and a stack of tv-dinners,
I guess I’m ready.
It didn’t look to good for Lance in Dauphine Libere this week. Hard to tell if that’s due to present form or tactics though. Anyway, it will be real interesting to follow the Tour this year. Alexandre Vinokourov is looking very strong at the moment and Ullrich is always a potential threat.
Cheers!
/MarcusR
Portugal crash and burn against Greece and France take on England tonight (allez les Bleus). I’m disconnecting the doorbell and drawing the blinds. It’s going to be a long two weeks.