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Listed below are comments made by kelkar between Wednesday, 18th June 2008 and Saturday, 21st June 2008.

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Germany the big winners in last act drama 01:06am on 21 Jun 2008 Like Phil said, this is really turning out to be an amazing tournament. Almost every game is ends up being memorable for one reason or other. I had a presentation to prepare the night but I had to start it at 10pm because the Germany-Portugal was so engrossing.
Look back at Sweden - Russia, Turkey - Czech Rep, Italy - Romania, Italy - France, all the Holland games. I can't remember a tournament with this much excitement. England really won't be missed by the rest of the world here.
I'm glad Turkey made it through, although Croatia were my team of the tournament so far (Holland are great but let's compare man for man and you'll see my point) . The fact is, these 'lesser' teams have caught up with the big boys and made this whole tournament incredibly entertaining, almost as much as Euro 96. If only they had a catchy theme-song to go with it!

Holland - Germany final, Germany winners. it's so obvious no?
Italy will provide Spain's real test 01:01am on 18 Jun 2008 I think some people are being a bit too harsh on Italy. Here's a few point on why I think the Azzurri are pretty decent:

1. On the whole Italy are pretty much the same team that won the world cup, ok forget that because the final want great. The same team that beat Germany 2-0 in the semi which was one of the best performances ever.

2. Overall, watching Italy play football now is actually fun. Cast your minds back to 2004 and beyond that. Italy were DIRE to watch. They'd create one chance every half and score one of them. Now Italy are attacking, less tactical, less cynical. The full backs bomb up the wings, De Rossi and Cassano are fast and skillful. Even the defensive midfielders like Ambrosini and Gattuso are getting stuck in. Come on, how many dire England games have we seen recently? Quite a few.

3. Italy played alright against a fantastic, counteracting Holland. They should have taken Romania apart and I still think should have won 2-1 were it not for some dodgy refereeing. And they could have beaten France 5-0. It's Toni who's looking dodgy but the guy is off his game for some reason. Not Italy.

4. At the end of the day, Italy is one of those teams that people love to hate because they're stereotyped as being ,I guess very un-english. The conception is they're whiny, wussy, boring, slow, negative, divers etc. I agree that things were like that but Lippi and Donadoni have and are steering Italy in a positive, dynamic way. They deserve to be in the quarters and I predict they'll go further, (but they won't beat Holland, unless Buffon saves everything)

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