‘European Championship’ Archives
England 4-0 Bulgaria
Jermain Defoe scored a hat-trick as England got their Euro 2012 qualifying campaign off to a fine start with a 4-0 victory against Bulgaria at Wembley. England -vs- Bulgaria (4-0) - Watch more Sports Videos at Vodpod.
When Turkey were really crap: England 8-0 Turkey (14th October, 1987)
Frankly too much info about this game can be found here. This is a newspaper cutting taken from the Yorkshire Post by me when I was 14.
How good was Tomas Brolin?
In the early 1990s Per Tomas Brolin was the golden boy of Swedish football. When he played his first match when he was just six years old at Forssåtunet, and often played on teams with older players. In one match he scored 15 goals and was noticed by "Buster", a popular football comics magazine. His first professional match was for Näsvikens in [...]
(Worst) matches of the decade: Portugal 0 – 1 Greece (2004)
Organized, efficient, fit, boring. I admire the fact that the Greeks imposed themselves on the tournament by simply sticking to their game plan and performing to their utmost for every minute of every game. Watching the awful dross was something else altogether, mind. A horrid end to an underwhelming tournament. What would have happened if Rooney [...]
European Championship: England 2-6 Germany
Four second-half goals from Germany ended England's hopes of glory in the final in Helsinki. The World Cup holders scored the opener with Birgit Prinz slotting in a clever Inka Grings pass and Melanie Behringer then struck a stunner from 41 yards. Karen Carney pulled one back before Kim Kulig added a third after the interval. Kelly Smith gave [...]
England false dawns: Yugoslavia 1-4 England, Euro 88 qualifier
Euro1988 was held in West Germany and was a pivotal, chastening moment in my football fan career. It was the eighth European Football championship, although in truth it was only from 1980 onwards that the competition really took on the feel of a tournament when it expanded from the previous four teams to become an eight-team two-group [...]
