This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE Football is a simple game – 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end … well, you know the rest by…
Month: June 2020
This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE London. Marseille. Brussels. Portugal had been in the last four of a major tournament before. Bobby Charlton, Michel Platini and Zinedine Zidane had dumped them…
This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE It was a Dutch disaster in Amsterdam as the Netherlands suffered repeated jitters from the penalty spot to lose out to a dogged Italy in…
This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE A brilliantly placed Fernando Torres strike in the first part of the final against Germany was more than enough for Spain to be crowned European…
This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE Italy vanquished Germany 2-1 as they extended their unbeaten streak over the old enemy in major tournaments to eight games – and half a century. …
This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE Roger Lemerre’s France squad were somehow contriving to look even more impressive than Aimé Jacquet’s all-conquering crop of two years before, when the French won…
This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE Seven seconds into the Euro 1984 final, Spain knew they were up against it. At the Parc des Princes, Spain were taking on Michel Platini’s…
This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE Both the Czech Republic and Denmark had fairly remarkable routes to their Euro 2004 quarter-final. The Czechs had shown their muscle during the group stages…
This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE Has there ever been a more unlikely tournament victory than this? Denmark’s rise from non-qualifiers only a fortnight before this tournament begun to lifting the trophy…
This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE There’s an argument to say that 1996 was the peak of the 1990s. The Spice Girls ruled the airwaves, the N64 changed gaming forever, while in…
This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE The final of the European Championship not only produced a winning team that had come so close to international success so many times over the…
This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE Co-hosts the Netherlands cemented their status as the team to beat at Euro 2000 with a scintillating rout of an overawed Yugoslavia in Rotterdam. Having…
This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE In a sport that all too rarely rewards goalkeepers with the same headlines it so lavishes upon goalscorers, penalty shootouts go some of the way…
This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE The Euro 1984 semi-final between Denmark and Spain had it all, a nerve-wracking affair from the start. One the one side was Denmark, in an…
This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE Scoop, lob, chip, dink: no, not the fuzzy-costumed line-up of an early 2000s children’s television series, but some of the most visually pleasing sights in…
This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE As this tournament progresses, so the decision by the English broadcasting authorities looks ever more foolish. England may well be on a tour of South…
This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE The stadium shone a shade of emerald green and those who didn’t know the words to ‘The Fields of Athenry’ most likely did by the…
This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE A tournament that has largely struggled to come to terms with its expansion to an eight-nation event, the 1980 European Championship can at least now…