EURO 2008

Finally after 4 years europe's biggest event is back to the silver screen. although the euro qualifiers saw some ups and downs and a couple of teams have shocked some of the bigger teams, euro will be conspicuous due to england's absence. England having one of the best players in the world failed to qualify having been ousted by croatia(who incidentally are on a role after beating germany and topping their group). Lets take a blast to the past. 4 years ago greece stunned europe by beating portugal in the final and lifting the cup, but 4 years later here they are having been ousted in the group stages of euro 2008. Euro 2008 was said to be an open tournament with teams like spain, france, portugal, italy, france, germany all being joint favorites , but a few days into the tournament and looks like italy and france are out. Holland not one of the favorites but still a lethal team knocked the stuffing out of the world cup finalists, beating the world champions 3-0 and the world cup runners up france 4-1. So now its only fair to say that holland are the clear favorites along with spain(David villa, Fernando Torres and Cesc Fabregas all being in form).Germany who were also one of the favorites started well by beating Poland(Lucas podolski scoring a brace), but later were beaten by croatia, so now we have another favorite in croatia. Among all this mess of favorites lies another team maybe the best team in the world ,portugal. Portugal has a wide array of stars ranging from not so famous goalkeeper ricardo to the "sexiest european footballer" and manchester united winger Cristiano ronaldo. Portugal has one of the best team in the competition but is said to be erratic at times but it surely has the firepower to go all the way. Now for all those who are not sure which team to support i suggest u keep every team in mind cause dont be surprised if your favorite team loses to the team you didnt even dream of.As for me the team i support is down in the dumps(Italy) so im keeping all my options open because at the end of the day the winning team will be the team who plays the best football that dat. cheers and keep watcing euro cause it ain't over till its over