Euro 2012, best finals ever?

[RowleyBirkinQ.C(deceased)]

I guess its still early days yet but the stats so far have been great. With games 19 and 20 being played tonight
No 0-0 games, no penalties and only 1 sending off of that greek dude that shouldn't even have been a sending off.

 

[Max Paper]

'96 for me but I was at that age when it was IMMENSE

 

[1066familyman]

There was a pen in the opening game for Greece, but yes, the point stands - great tournament so far.

P.S. There was also 2 sending offs in the Poland v Greece game - one for each team.

 

[Hyperion]

There was a penalty and sending off on the first day(maybe first game) if I am not mistaken, Polish keeper. The Sub keeper came on and saved it

 

[The Lemming Stomper]

Euro 88

For this alone

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

Not sure about the best but it's definitely been a good one.

 

[RowleyBirkinQ.C(deceased)]

There was a pen in the opening game for Greece, but yes, the point stands - great tournament so far.

P.S. There was also 2 sending offs in the Poland v Greece game - one for each team.

Whoops, I stand corrected, 2 sendings off and a missed pen in the opening game. Still, at least I got the "no 0-0 games" stat correct. It's definitely been one if the most open and judging by the other thread, one of the best for Euro eye candy

 

[RowleyBirkinQ.C(deceased)]

The only disappointment so far for me has holland. All that attacking flair and 0 points and only 2 goals. And I lost 2 quid on those useless bastards in the work sweep.

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Euro 84 was the best because of the high proportion of exciting teams (Denmark, France and Portugal) and outstanding matches, IMHO. Both the semi-finals were thrilling, and the group games had Platini getting hat-tricks in consecutive matches. In terms of kits, the tournament was like an old-school Adidas party!

 

[Pavilionaire]

It's been a great tournament. Competitive football, some good sides but a little light on great strikers and match winners. I'm interested to see how Rooney plays.

 

[Notters]

Austria/Switzerland was great but that maybe because England weren't in it.

 

[catfish]

So far it's certainly up there with the best.

 

[Questions]

It's been a great tournament. Competitive football, some good sides but a little light on great strikers and match winners. I'm interested to see how Rooney plays.

I agree about the great strikers so far. Still a little way to go though.

 

[Mellotron]

It's been fantastic. I want to see more penalties, though.

 

[kevo]

It's been great so far - and I hope it continues, just to prove what a total moron Platini is for trying to change the format for the next tournament.

 

[bhafc99]

I've enjoyed it so far, but I think the mark of a great tournament will be how many of the winner-takes-all games from now on (as group games end) will be exciting classics.

The 16 team format is key - there are no teams there just to make up the numbers, unlike with World Cups. Shame it won't ever be like this again.

 

[Market Porter]

ThanK you english. Sing danse drink no fyting Sverige. Ukraine woman vary hap to lots Hryvna you spends have sexy time, but var short niet? now neu George frents tak me Donetsk to translate wantings. See game Ukraine but wan England win plis get more hryvnas. speak agin? до свидания.

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

euro 2000 (after the group stages) was brilliant........it also had zidane in what was probably his best tournament......there were some absolutely humdingers of knock-out matches in that tournament

euro 2008 was also brilliant, and unlike in '00, the group stages were also pretty intense....with czech republic vs turkey being an obvious highlight...one thing holding it back was that there wasn't really one "stand out" player....a world class player, at his prime, taking the tournament by storm...it was more a case of the whole spanish unit being good

this one has potential...it's been great so far and there hasn't really been any poor games (spain vs ireland for me was probably the poorest....one team being simply out of their depth doesn't equal enjoyment for me...it was like an early round FA cup game), but for me it needs someone to take the tournament by storm, like zidane did in '00.....germany are probably the strongest team, but their strength lies more in the fact that they don't contain a single weak link and spain are similar in that respect....a good outcome would be for ronaldo to go apeshit after his performance last night and lead portugal to glory

 

[leigull]

Seems like there's hardly been any yellow cards throughout the tournament. Not been any dirty games and other than some stupid play acting it's been played in a great spirit. Thoroughly enjoying it.

a good outcome would be for ronaldo to go apeshit after his performance last night and lead portugal to glory

I wouldn't enjoy that at all!

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

For a few reasons, this is already THUMPING the last world Cup.

1 - Suprises. Holland Exit. Greece and Czechs go through.
2 - Competetive games. Albeit the Russia -Czech game and the Spain-Ireland game, they have all been competetive. And when they haven't, the winning side has WOWED us.
3 - The fave's are demostrating equal brilliance in different ways. Germany steamrolling it whilst Spain do what they do best.
4 - The re-emergence of PROPER goals. Get it out wide, cross it in, BOSH for the big man!
5- The majority of TOP players are shining. I'm probably the ONLY person in England DELIGHTED to see Ronaldo play the way he did last night. That's the whole POINT of this. All season you see these players do it for their clubs and then FAIL at the tournament. Not Ronaldo. Not Gomez. It's great to see.
6 - England have restored some PRIDE back. Even if we go out tomorrow, this is 10 times better than South Africa just for the FIGHT shown.