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ivan_2068 wrote: France was really disappointing. Czech Republic deserves to win. I think so Lucas, but Czech Republic needs to win the game against Denmark first. Iván

Denmark-Czech Republic : 0-3. Crushing victory of the Czech players. Czech Republic is on the way to the final...

ivan_2068 wrote: France was really disappointing. Czech Republic deserves to win. I think so Lucas, but Czech Republic needs to win the game against Denmark first. My favorites still are Portugal and Holland, in that order. Iván

The Dutch are even able to take penalties, nowadays!

I'd forgotten about that, but now you mention it...,

No don't get me started!

Oh OK, I'll just say England had the ability and the opportunity to win the whole competition. I think the English media (I always thought the B in BBC was for British*) is now coming round to the fact that while they may not have liked that decision, there was the possibility that in the ref's eyes the keeper was impeded. In the end, it wasn't that decision which put them out, it was the fact that Beckham has the penalty taking equivelent of golf's yips just now.

Did you notice in the previous England game how Motty managed to mention 1966 before they'd even kicked off. I lost a fiver on that, I had him down for the first five minutes!

I can understand the frustration felt by England, they rightly know they could have won. At the end of the day though, they underperformed, and went out fair and square. I would suggest that the team and the media let Britain down slightly by not having the good grace afterwards to congratulate Portugal on their win. (If they did, sorry I didn't see it).

(*It gets really irritating when the BBC commentators talk about England as "we", but when the other UK countries are playing they talk about them as if they were a foreign country. Have you noticed how on the news for example they might say one night "The prime minister visited a primary school in Islington". The next night "The prime minister visited a primary school in Scotland". To the BBC, the two are geographically equivalent!)

See what you did, you got me started!

France won't be winning this either

Holland will be the last 'big name' to go out when they lose to Sweden tomorrow thus leaving the door wide open for Portugal.''Conspiracy Theory'' anyone?