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[Heath]

Provided Russia don't win, I'm not that bothered. I'm frankly sick of Russian LJ users spamming the Premiership community telling us that they're going to behead the Queen with their bears and vodka because they beat us in qualifying. Having said that, when I mentioned that their glorious UEFA Cup winners (Zenit St. Petersburg) managed to get beat by an English team (Everton), they were oddly quiet.

Sweden or Germany'd do. We seem to always get drawn with Sweden in competitions these days and they're a generally good team so I'd like them to do well. They've got quite a tough group though. I don't think Everton have any European internationals going to play; unless Nuno Valente is in the Portugese squad.

[Croyles]

I think Germany will win this one. They have been playing really really well. Other favourites such as France and Italy have been playing bad ever since 2006. Austria and Switzerland have been playing poorly even for their standards and the atmosphere down there is extremely bad for a championship.

[Cz]

I think Spain will finally get the job done, for reasons that I don't entirely understand. I'll be supporting the Netherlands, though, because they've got the winning combination of talent and not being jerks.

[charliepanayi]

Spain? Ha! I'll believe it when I see it (a bit like with England really).

I'm going to go for France, which is admittedly stickingmy neck out a little considering the evil group they are in. But I think they have a strong team and I've discounted the other teams for the following reasons:

Spain and Holland - always implode
Italy - often implode, rarely have two good tournaments in a row.
Portugal - don't think they're quite strong enough overall
Czech Republic - good but I think their best chance was four year ago where they were probably unlucky against Greece
Germany - possibly the strongest threat to France, and have the easier half of the draw. One concern is I'd like to see how they do on foreign soil this time, being hosts in 2006 would have boosted them a bit. I think they're a good bet though.


Switzerland could be dark horses for me. I'll be just happy for Greece if they can make it to the quarters this time. Defend your title with honour guys! There could be another surprise a la Denmark in 1992 or Greece in 2004 but I'll go for France.

Frankly I can't wait. Bring it on!

[Croyles]

The Netherlands team not being jerks??? Nothing to do with dutch people but the team itself has the most arrogant players in the world of football!
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[Old Manus]

Spain and Holland, always tipped to do well, always fail. Neither will win. My money's on Portugal.

[Chunk]

Cheering for the Netherlands and Czech republic to somehow make the finals =) (My dream final)

But I voted for the Italians. Who will either choke and not make it out of the group stages or go all the way.

Group C = group of death?

Note: Don't have too much knowledge in Euro's but always a joy to watch

Cheers!

[ReloadPsi]

wont be england lol

Originally Posted by DK ^

England aren't in it for me to laugh at when they inevitably fail so I don't care

That in itself is worthy of a laugh. Come on, lap it up!