It’s Spain vs Germany in Vienna tomorrow, but unfortunately not everyone can be Spanish or German and have a team in the Euro 2008 final. So that means plenty of neutrals will be watching the game.
But are you going to stay neutral?
If you’ve no allegiance to either Spain or Germany (or if, like Mario Gomez, [...]

We’ve spent a fair bit of time ogling the womenfolk of Euro 2008. It’s all part of what makes tournament football so very very joyous.
But to redress the balance a bit, we’ve invited Vanessa from the ever popular Kickette to run the rule over the no doubt lovely looking young men who’ve been competing [...]

If Spain wins Euro 2008 tomorrow, they take €23 million in prize money. If Germany wins, thy take €22m (one million less because they lost a group game to Croatia.) Not too shabby, eh? But according to the Financial Times (who know a thing or two about money) whichever nation wins Euro 2008 will actually [...]

Some news to read as you commit a robbery with a banana:

Top 5 goals (FootieDB)
We love soccer because it’s “an entertainment show“? (Eleven Devils)
Romania review (Romania blog)
Euro 2008’s top five goalkeepers (Soccer Tickets Online)
Should Cesc start? (Caught Offside)
Lilian Thuram leaving soccer due to a heart defect? (France blog)
Top ten Euro flops (The Sun)
Cantona say [...]

Each round of the group stage, we presented a lineup of the players we felt had the best performances. But that was the group stage, and as teams like Holland and Italy found out, it’s the knockouts that really matter. Here is our starting eleven for the quarterfinal and semifinal rounds, with a [...]

The nickname typically applies to the team, but I think in the case of this picture, The Red Fury applies just as well to the supporters…with some other colors thrown in for good measure. (Frank Fife//AFP/Getty Images)

Listen, I’m not saying Andrei Arshavin is a bad player. Clearly he’s a very very good player. Russia with Arshavin were a much more dangerous than without, and any player that can take apart the Netherlands in a Euro 2008 quarterfinal is worth taking notice of.

But I think maybe we’re all getting carried away. He [...]

In our latest Fake Photo, Cristiano Ronaldo leaves the field after Portugal’s defeat against Germany and magically begins his transformation into a Real Madrid player. We’re not sure why, but we particularly like seeing Bernd Schuster with an undersized head.
Thanks to reader Swapnil for sending it in.
Think you can do better? Then send us your [...]

1. Guus Hiddink (Dutch) Russia

OK so he failed to get past the semi-finals again. But to take Russia that far is still hugely impressive. To take them that far playing positive attacking football even more so. He might be the bridesmaid again, but he’s the hot bridesmaid every other nation wants to marry. Euro 2008 [...]

The latest in our series of Euro 2008 comics from Chris Toy is a three parter. Seems the ghost of Euro 2008 (pictured) wanted to give Russia some help, but didn’t really know how to go about it.
Click the following links to read (and click back to get, er, back)
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
After watching the [...]