This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE While Marco van Basten lit up the final of Euro 88 with his stupendous volley to seal the Netherlands’ win over the Soviet Union, few…
Month: June 2020
This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE At the height of the Cold War, one would have been forgiven for thinking that if anybody was going to cause an international incident through…
This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE It was not the final that either General Tito or the nation had anticipated when Yugoslavia was chosen to host the finals of the 1976…
Another late show from Turkey served to send Croatia crashing out of the 2008 European Championship on penalties. Ivica Klasnić’s last gasp goal looked set to have won it, only for the…
This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE Plenty was at stake when the Netherlands and the Czech Republic met at the Estádio Municipal de Aveiro on 19 June 2004. Dick Advocaat’s Oranje had…
This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE On the evening of 19 June, Denmark and Belgium produced a modern classic at the Stade de la Meinau in Strasbourg to provide a thrilling…
This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE When Austrian referee Gerd Grabher blew for full-time, it was one of those rarest of occasions in international football when fans of the winning team…
This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE Football fans know the even years provide an international tournament to fill the gap between domestic seasons. But the game was no longer a pleasant…
This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE Playing full-back for Grimsby Town in the Third Division is a long way from managing England in the European Championship, but that was exactly the…
This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE The football gods smiled benignly on Dieter Kaster when his stepfather legally adopted him. Already a schoolboy international. he took the name Müller. To be…
There’s every chance that travelling teams who have in the past have felt inferior, won’t suffer as much now that the focus is purely on the pitch
This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE This is the day that Danish football came of age. After the sour ending to their debut night against France, now the Danes have served notice…
This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE Now the party can truly get started. Michel Platini, France’s elegant and masterful playmaker, stamped his authority on this tournament with a hat-trick in Les Bleus’…
This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE It felt like it was never going to arrive. From the moment the two protagonists of international football’s oldest fixture were drawn in the same…
This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE A sensational final 15 minutes in Geneva saw Turkey progress as runners-up in Group A ahead of their opponents, the Czech Republic. Things had looked…
This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE Heading into the fixture on 14 June 1996, Italy had already won their opening match, a 2-1 triumph over Russia on Merseyside. The Czech Republic…
This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE The tournament had yet to really take off at this point in the sixth edition of the European Championship. The opening set of fixtures had…
Yugoslavia 3-3 Slovenia at Euro 2000: one of the great European Championship games in recent history
This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE Siniša Mihajlović had endured the game from hell. Long considered one of Yugoslavia’s most gifted players, the Lazio defender, renowned for his vision, leadership, and…