Tag: Euro 2016

For the Euro 2016 edition, UEFA have decided to increase the number of participating teams to 24, giving the competition a grand scale allowing the small nations like Slovakia, Albania…

The European Championship qualifying is drawing to a close during this international break from club competition. The final games of qualifying are set to take place on Tuesday, and after…

Spanish influence in European football is anything but new. Over the past few years, we have witnessed domination in European football by the Spanish clubs which has been in full…

England manager Roy Hodgson’s future at the helm of the national team will be in jeopardy should he lead his team to another disappointing campaign at next summer’s Euros, according…

England v Italy (7.45pm KO, Live on BBC1) England are 2.88 shots with Paddy Power  to win in 90 minutes and book their place in the semi-final. Italy can be backed…

Ahead of today’s first round of Euro 2012 Group D matches, here are our betting tips for who will win Group D and who is most likely to qualify from…

Ahead of today’s first round of Euro 2012 Group C matches, here are our betting tips for who will win Group C and who is most likely to qualify from…

Ahead of today’s first round of Euro 2012 Group B matches, here are our betting tips for who will win Group B and who is most likely to qualify from it to the quarterfinals.

The 2012 European Championships will kick off this summer in Poland and Ukraine. The Euro 2012 betting hugely favours Spain and Germany, but beyond the favourites and indeed beyond the…

With Euro 2012 just round the corner, the footballing world will have their eyes on Ukraine and Poland this summer. With Europe’s leading nations competing in June and July, fans…

Euro 2012 – the 14th European Championship for teams sanctioned by the UEFA – is scheduled to be played between 8th June and 1st July 2012 in Poland and Ukraine….

While watching David Silva and Spain dismantle a dogged and compact Scotland on Wednesday, it struck me: this was hardly Spain’s best outfit and they were dominating. Silva cemented his…

Jack Wilshere is the future. The chosen one, he’s the face of English football for the twenty-first century. Miraculously, he remains somewhat personally underexposed for the amount of hype that…

Saturday afternoon sees Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium play host to one of the biggest International rivalries around in a 2012 European Championships Qualifier. England cross the border in search of three points that would not only put them top of Group G (for two hours at least), but cement their rivals place at the foot of the table.

Jermaine Pennant wants to play for Ireland and doesn’t mind saying so. It doesn’t sit well with Liam Lawrence that he’s saying so. Is there anything wrong with Pennant’s attitude?

I have followed England in the last six major tournaments we have played in stretching back to the European Championships held here on home soil in 1996. During that time…

Stuart Fuller, from the blog The Ball is Round goes back to the end of the 1970’s for an international at Wembley Stadium. I am a difficult person to buy…

UEFA is the governing body of European football and is by far the most lucrative and most watched of all the 6 confederations of FIFA. UEFA’s influence over the world…

In 2002 the promise of Sven Goran Eriksson’s bright new era was scythed down by what would become familiar stumbling blocks: the quarter finals of a major tournament and defeat…

An astonishing leaked interview with former England boss Steve “Umbrella” McClaren has made it clear to British football authorities that the man they entrusted with England’s dismal Euro 2008 qualifying…

When it comes to the annals of English football history, it’s unlikely Steve McClaren’s tenure in the hotseat will get a particularly favourable write-up. Somewhat tactically naive, unable to motivate…

Football is cruel. Italy, winners of a penalty shoot-out in the World Cup Finals in 2006, were dumped out of Euro 2008 after losing on penalties to Spain. Defeat, on…

English referees tend to be in the spotlight in international tournaments for the wrong reasons – Graham Poll with his 3 yellow cards in Germany 06 and now Howard Webb…

Images courtesy of Ian Blanchard and the English Football Association. In February 2008, I had the pleasure and privilege to interview Mr. Ian Blanchard, who became the Head of National…

Netherlands 3-0 Italy. The Azzurri’s adventure at Euro 2008 could not have started worse. 3 goals like the 3 words which can be used to describe today’s match: offside, counter-attack,…

Photo courtesy of Paul Blank, www.postproduktie.nl. On Monday, in a training accident in Austria, Fabio Cannavaro, the “Berlin Wall” and the great captain of the Italian National Team, saw his…

Images courtesy of adidas. As is their custom, adidas designed a new football for Euro 2008. “Like +Teamgeistâ„¢, the official match ball of the 2006 FIFA World Cupâ„¢, the adidas…