Uefa have chosen Barça’s Xavi Hernandez best player of Euro 2008. After his superb performances throughout the tournament, especially in the semi-final and final I believe that he thoroughly deserves it. Congratulations Xavi, let’s hope you can keep up the form for Barça next season. Uefa also named a list of the best 23 players which also includes […]

A goal after 33minutes from Fernando Torres was enough to give Spain a thoroughly deserved victory in tonight’s Euro 2008 final. A great through pass from Barça’s Xavi Hernandez gave Torres the chance to show his speed as he outpaced Phillip Lahm to nick the ball skillfully over the advancing Jens Lehmann. It was fitting […]

A magnificent second half display from the Spanish team blew away Russia by three goals to nil and Spain must now be fancied to beat Germany in Sunday’s final. Barça’s Xavi Hernandez put Spain on the road to victory when he met Iniesta’s cross to side foot the ball under the Russian keeper.

I have to confess I thought this game had Italy scrape a lucky win written all over it. So many tournaments in the past have seen Spain perform well in the early stages only to get knocked out at the quarter-final stage, usually with some sort of controversy involved, while the Italians have made an […]

 
Yet another upset in Euro 2008 tonight. The Dutch had finished top of the so called group of death and were fancied by many people to go on and win it. However, tonight they were totally outplayed and outrun by a superb Russian team. Andrei Arshavin was absolutely brilliant and gave the performace of the tournament […]

Turkey qualified for the semi finals of Euro 2008 after a thrilling finish to their quarter final match with Croatia. One of the game’s main protagonists was ex-Barça goalie Rüştü Reçber who was at fault when Croatia took the lead in the 119th minute, but after Turkey equalized with the last kick of the game, […]

Despite a good performance from Deco, Portugal offered a disappointing image as they went out 3-2 to Germany in tonight’s exciting first quarter final. Germany who switched to a 4-5-1 formation went two goals up in the first half an hour. First Podolski made a great run down the left side before finding Schweinsteiger who […]

Just a short one for today, my computer has been having an off day and making life hard for me. Anyway, while I have finally got a connexion I’ll give you a brief summary of the games today. For the first time I tried to watch both games at once (not two tellies, just flicking […]

Eric Abidal and Thierry Henry have come in for a fair bit of criticism since signing for Barça last summer. Whether Barça are to blame or not I cannot say, but now playing for France they have both had poor tournaments as a lacklustre French team finished bottom of the Group C.

Watching the Austria-Germany game this evening I got to trying to remember which Germans or Austrians have ever played for Barça. The only Germans I could think of were Bernd Schuster who I won’t say any more about, and goalkeeper Robert Enke who made four appearances for Barça in 2002/3. As for Austrians I can only […]