Friendly rivalry? A bit of banter? Whatever it is, the tensions certainly building in the e-mail exchanges between Germany's Honigstein and Spain's Balague. Following yesterdays opening ...
Spain are in the final of Euro 2008: our first appearance in a major tournament final since 1984. The match has just finished and, as you can probably understand, I’m off to spend the night in celebration.
Following the email exchanges between Guillem and Gab Marcotti ahead of the quarter finals, with the third flat mate in Zurich being Germany's Rafi Honigstein, it just had to be a Germany - Spain final. The emails have already started ...
Germany 3 Turkey 2
This tournament has turned out as an exaltation of the vision of Luciano Spalletti, the Roma coach who, out of necessity, demands that his midfielders get in to the box at every ...
One of the most well worn clichés surrounding the Spanish national team, and especially since Johan Cruyff mentioned it during a memorable interview with Jorge Valdano, has been the claim that national differences and divergent loyalties ...
The main tactical trend at this European Championships is that the lessons learnt by Spalletti’s Roma can be applied to the national teams. Apart from Spain and, briefly, Germany – who used two strikers - it has been the ...
Which of the two teams playing last night was Holland?
We saw defenders pushing forward, players closing down spaces, the ball played to feet and full backs opening up the pitch. You could say it was Holland versus ...
