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Listed below are comments made by GerrieO between Friday, 30th May 2008 and Thursday, 3rd July 2008.

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Crunch time for Platini 7:13pm on 03 Jul 2008 How can any oe argue that Platini is anti-English ?

After all, with the enlargement from 16 to 24 participants even England might make it ...
Team of the tournament 3:41pm on 01 Jul 2008 As to L a h m :

Satisfied that he was (positively) included by some, who had obviously not forgotten his performance in the first few matches,
even though he had to accept new positionings.

True, he made a gross mistake against Turkey but made up for it by scoring the decisive goal almost immediately after wards.True, he was not his true self against Spain. But this was SPAIN ! And together with Lehmann (mutual misunderstanding) he was responsible for Torres'goal. (Spain would have won anyway.)

And he was substituted for the second half due to a foot injury (open wound that had to be stitched).

Otherwise I am sure he would have torn himself apart to make amends.

He has a great character (also off the pitch)
and should not be condemned for the fact that this was not to be his tournament. Very great player most of the time - even elected into the all star team in EURO '04 even though his team was horrible.
Spain are worthy winners 00:33am on 30 Jun 2008 From Germany:

We are disappointed to have come in second best only.

But congratulations to Spain !

This is a cup winner like we have not seen in a long time.

Which means they were the most consistently good team throughout the tournament, not losing once; they achieved this without any foul manoeuvers, and not at the cost of some opponent's bad luck, and not through bad refereeing.

In other words: A perfect record.

Without envy, without jealousy, but with great admiration, once again:

Congratulations, Espania !
Thanks for the memories, Turkey 10:54pm on 26 Jun 2008 Wow - c o r r e c t i o n :

Of course it must read :

"our Scottish friends" :-)
Thanks for the memories, Turkey 10:52pm on 26 Jun 2008 Thanks, Turkey.

You played with your hearts.
The Germany team did not.
They played with their heads.

An underdog who seemingly dominates the pitch and plays with heart is bound to be everybody's darling, even if he loses. Understandable.

I do not want our team to be everybody's darling. As Germans, you have no chance anyway.

I want our team to be successful.

Never mind all this ludicrous "Panzer" imagery and all the other stereotypes no matter what the performance was like.

Our Turkish friends have no problems with Germany being successful.

But watch the Italians and the especially Brits - excuse me: the English: our Scottish fiends see these matters veeeeeeeeeeery differently.

It is fun to be envied if success is the reason.

Can't imagine it's much fun for the English to be pitied when poor performance is the reason.

Understandable.
Basel serves up a thriller 6:19pm on 26 Jun 2008 Englandcomeon seems to be very disturbed.
I cannot remember having ever heard a person so stubbornly doggedly negative about another nation.

He surprises you.
As he goes on he annoys you.
As he still goes on, he makes you chuckle.

Englandcomeon, come on - go home.
Germany the big winners in last act drama 1:12pm on 24 Jun 2008 Droog,

you are so right about the Germans'
qualities:

t o o o l d (i.e. 26.1yrs.), t o o
f a t (like Mertesacker), t o o t a l l (like Lahm), c a n 't r u n (like Schweini, Lahm, Podolski), c a n 't c o n t r o l t h e b a l l (like Podolski, Klose, Schweini, Lahm, Ballack) etc etc. ...

And the e a r t h i s a d i s k, r ight ?

LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL

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Holland show the way forward 3:22pm on 14 Jun 2008 Big comliments to and great admiration for
the Holland team from Germany!

They have playfully demonstrated how wonderful football can be.
Domestic matters settled, now for the Euros 2:50pm on 30 May 2008 To kristianowall (no. 25):

You made one mistake: In the quarter finals it will not be "Greece - Italy 3:0" but "2 : 0".
;-)

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