More Euro 08

Poland vs. Austria

Referee Howard Webb admits he made a key mistake in the Euro 2008 clash between Poland and Austria - but that the decision to award a controversial late penalty against the Poles was absolutely right. Webb has been the subject of a hate campaign from Polish fans after he gave a spot-kick for shirt-pulling which veteran Austria striker Ivica Vastic converted for a 1-1 draw, but stands by that decision.

Right Now....Euro 1st Placers

Group A- Portugal
Group B- Croatia
Group C- Netherlands (Italy is in last!!)
Group D- Spain

Greese is out :'(

It couldn't work again now could it? Greece won Euro 2004 through a mix of grit, brio and sheer athleticism and the inability of their opponents to find an answer to an approach which suffered from such a severe lack of aesthetic that Otto Rehhagel's men are forgotten champions just four years on.

In Salzburg, it was even more difficult to think of Greece as defending European champions. Their non-qualification for the 2006 World Cup in Germany had given rise to the idea that victory in Portugal was a fluke; this loss to an ageing and nervous Sweden team gives considerable weight to that theory.
Rehhagel, a man who has the freedom of 'Hellas' after masterminding them to a title that ranks alongside Denmark's win in 1992 as shock of shocks in the European Championship, still had it all to prove in sending his team out in Salzburg.
In the city that gave Mozart to the world, few could expect Greece to play the sweet music that Portugal and the Dutch had demonstrated in their opening matches. And Rehhagel, a man not given to bowing to the conventions of modern-day total football, rigidly stuck to the approach that has made him successful as an international coach with his adopted country. Far more Salieiri than Wolfgang Amadeus, the near-seventy-year-old is hardly going to change his pragmatic approach now.