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Euros start today and whilst they obviously haven't got the interest they would had England (And to a much lesser degree, scotland) been there, we should still be able to see some great games.

As well as taking over Turkey in the Euro Stunners (Thanks Axs) I was also unlucky enough to pull them out of the bag at my locals promotion (For every game Turkey win, I get a free pint, for every draw it's a half. I'm not expecting to get more than a half tbh!) Due to this, I've put a tenner on the Turks to beat Portugal today :?

Come on you Turks!!!!!!

Dont think youl be drinking to much then herthab!!

Should get at least a half from the Swiss game.

Got a few bets on this...Romania or the Czechs to win, Villa top scorer/Germany win double, Mario Gomez top scorer and Austria come bottom (Safe bet that one)

Should make it more fun.

It will be strange to watch a major championship without having a team to support. Now I know what it's like to be Scottish.

What will be interesting though is to be able to sit back and study the football being played, and then decide if the standard is better in the Champion's League.

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

i'm looking forward to this slightly more than if england were there.

i've drawn romania and poland in the work sweepstake; romania haven't a chance in their group so i'm supporting polska.

I got Croatia in the sweepstakes and I also have them in the stunners competition, so I'm supporting them.

Martin O'Neil is among the pundits on the bbc. Woooooo.

This is offset entirely by having Shearer sat next to him. Booooooo.

Martin o'neill is one of my favourite men in football at the moment

Martin O'Neill is a shit football pundit and I don't think the fact it takes him 5 minutes to make his point (if he makes one at all) is particularly amusing.

Get Strachan back into the pundit seat, he was far far better.

Strachans doing some sort of pitch-side punditry-ITV knock off thing for bbc i think

Yeah he was on earlier. He was just better at analysing the game than say Alan Hansen.

This is a bit rich as England aren't there, given the way you go on about the Premiership as if it's the anti-christ.

BBC coverage was a bit snobby at the beginning - moaning about this and that.

We didn't qualify - deal with it.

Why didn't you submit your team then you amateur?

David Pleat makes Mark Bright's punditry look good.

Good old ITV - Suggesting Portugal have a rich history in International competitions  :-))(

However, Portugal should beat Turkey on the basis of the first half.

Look at the old school style footballs that they are using

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44728000/jpg/_44728341_srna_getty.jpg

Old Skool rules  8)

I'm gonna get me some of those croatia socks- immense!

they're bit divey, the old croats.

Croatia were shite for vast periods of the game. Played a bit like England in the sense that they made a very poor team look decent.

Three poor games thus far - hopefully the Germans and the Polish can get the competition going.

3 games so far, 3 wins on the betting.  8)

every match result has gone as most would have predicted so far.i thought the swiss were inlucky, and austria were better than i thought they'd be but both still lost.

  Although Croatia were a bit average....they still managed to do the most basic things right.....unlike England who conceded two important goals eg Neville og ( courtsey of Robinson)  and Krancar (courtesy of Carson) that you'd  probably  not expect to see in the Conference.

come on reg the neville one took a bobble.freak goal that was

Stat of the day...

Germany have failed to win a European Championship finals game since they won the final in '96!!

1-nil Krauts. Podolski.

Got to say that stat looks like ending tonight....

Modric is in my dream team  :D

And mine. And so's Podolski  8) .

germany aren't going to win the tourney. lahm aside their defence is very mediocre.

and mario gomez sucks!

Their defence did get broken a few times, Poland were just too crap to capitalise on it. The Germany vs Croatia match could be entertaining end-to-end football based on their performances today

*awaits dull 0-0*

How's my dislike for the money grabbing, bloodsucking premiership, with it's saturation coverage got anything to do with a summer, International, tournament?