To Euro 2008 again and now we’ve had a chance to see every team in the tournament display its wares, we’ve got to say Holland, Portugal, Spain and inevitably Germany are looking mighty good. Them’s the heights, but now beloved reader the depths: to wit Greece versus Sweden a game so tedious we simply lost the will to live at half time and tucked into the first two episodes of Battlestar Galactica Season 2 instead.
Now we still have to pinch ourselves to believe Greece are the holders and the we aren’t still on the crack, but at least the 2004 vintage was built on recognisable if unspectacular virtues, packing the box at set pieces and displaying a defensive attitude which would put the 300 to shame
Last night however, they were just plain annoying passing the ball endlessly around the back three to run down the clock and THIS WAS IN THE FIRST HALF.
But lo the gods of football looked down from Olympus and displayed their wrath, rightly punishing the Greeks for crimes against the game and allowing Zlatan Ibrahimovic to unleash his own wondrous thunderbolt and win it for the Swedes.
Justice was served, everyone was happy, well obviously not the Greeks, but they weren’t exactly bearing footballing gifts anyway.*
*Like most sportswriters we are contractually obliged to include the old ‘Greeks bearing gifts’ cliché, in this case due to a new sponsorship deal with Harry’s Humous. The finest Humous this side of the Acropolis!
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