06-18-2004, 06:36 AM
AA, if it is about football, I have one or two opinions to share with you. First, I wonder why I'm still such a soccer fan. I will have a seasonticket again coming year, but I realize and hate the fact that is has become more a world of money than of sports. You can see this also at these european championships.
9 out of 10 matches is so boring that you think "I should have spend these two hours better than just watching soccer on television". Then the fact that most of the players save their best skills and tricks for the half time commercials :) Good that was the frustration part...now the football fan part.
First it seems that France is the new Germany....winning in the end of the match with a lot of luck, so let's hope they will not win this year. But to point a winner is difficult because the level seems awfully low this year. I hope Holland wins, but for the first time I did not put them as champions in my predictions because they are just not good enough. Germany will always get far but just as holland they just don't have the quality to become champion this year (the players are even worse than the dutch, only as a team I see them slightly better).The winner of portugal against spain can have a big chance of becomeing champion I think.Let's wait for the second match of Italy (tonight) to see if they can do something (or maybe sweden).
So for now that is it, when the tournament is a bit older we will see who are the real favourites.
(good thread lord olf)
9 out of 10 matches is so boring that you think "I should have spend these two hours better than just watching soccer on television". Then the fact that most of the players save their best skills and tricks for the half time commercials :) Good that was the frustration part...now the football fan part.
First it seems that France is the new Germany....winning in the end of the match with a lot of luck, so let's hope they will not win this year. But to point a winner is difficult because the level seems awfully low this year. I hope Holland wins, but for the first time I did not put them as champions in my predictions because they are just not good enough. Germany will always get far but just as holland they just don't have the quality to become champion this year (the players are even worse than the dutch, only as a team I see them slightly better).The winner of portugal against spain can have a big chance of becomeing champion I think.Let's wait for the second match of Italy (tonight) to see if they can do something (or maybe sweden).
So for now that is it, when the tournament is a bit older we will see who are the real favourites.
(good thread lord olf)