The Euros finally sprung into action last night with a quality encounter between the Netherlands and Italy which finally ended the rather sluggish start to the tournament 3-0 to the Dutch masters and who’d have predicted that before the game?
Van the man’s opener? Controversial yes and almost certainly offside by most conventional definitions, except the chief of the referees committee Keith Hackett obviously.
After that Sneider’s breakaway strike for the second was truly one of the great team goals with van Bronckhorst clearing off his own line, the ball moving fluidly to the other end of the park and in the back of the net before the Italians react. One to add to Van Bastan’s classic against Russia in the annals of great Euro goals.
You have to feel sorry for Italy who actually played okay and went close a couple of times, but truly the force was with Holland and they could do no wrong.
Hep Hep Nederland!
Early contender for worst innovation of the tournament so far? Nope not the entire Match of the Day studio panel or indeed ITVs title sequence but undoubtedly the BBC's virtual goaliser or whatever the feck they call it. Utterly pointless: when you can get all the goals on the I-player replay anyway and it looks like a poor man’s FIFA 98.
Worst use of the license fee evah! It’s a good job we don’t bother paying the bast...
Ahem night all.
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