Update

Congrats, but don't get carried away

I know I've not been on here for over a week now, I've been kinda busy. Just want to say congrats to Spain on Winning the inaugural European World Cup (yep I'm continuing the joke), lets see if they can defend it in 4 years time. See that's how you praise them! I think everyone is getting a little excited and carried away, proclaiming them as the greatest team ever. Yes they've won three competitions on the bounce but so did Uruguay in the 1920's/30's and the Italian side of the mid to late 30's might have done the same had the European World Cup been invented back then, the Brazillians of the late 90's/early 00's would have probably won three World Cups had Ronaldo not had a fit in the preparation for the 1998 final... The point I'm trying to make is, let's not get carried away, lets just appreciate Spain for what they are, a good football team, let's stop "sucking them off" (for want of a better phrase). They've been fortunate at times as have others been unfortunate, this not to take anything away from them but I'd say Germany were the most impressive team this year, they had an off 60 minutes (just as Spain did against Switzerland in their first game of the last World Cup) and were caught out. Italy were well beaten in the final but nobody seems to remember that they played the best part of half an hour with 10 men due to an unfortunate injury to Thiago Motta. England were... nah I'm kidding! England were dog poo as usual and everyone got excited despite constantly saying, "we're not getting excited this year", I mean can you believe there were people who thought we could match up to the likes of Italy?? We ended up putting in an embarrassing performance, it's not surprise we lost the penalty shoot out the players were knackered from spending 100+ minutes chasing Andrea Pirlo and co.

My final thoughts on Euro 2012, a thoroughly entertaining tournament the likes of which I haven't seen for a VERY long time. Let's hope the 2014 World Cup is just as good.

Best player: Andrea Pirlo, the only person who wasn't Spanish to come out of the tournament getting "sucked off" (sorry) by the press over here. It's liken they'd never heard of him, despite him being a World Cup winner, the wrong side of 30, playing for the current Italian champions... lazy journalism!

Worst player: Georgious Samaras. Wow! He was shocking. In the BBC closing montage they had a slo-mo of another Greek player shouting at him, I thought that was quite apt as I can imagine he'd have been pretty frustrating to play with. He did get on the scoresheet against the Germans though, I believe that puts him on 5 for the season. Yes! Five!! From a forward!

Best goal: Blaszczykowski's equaliser for Poland against Russia, great strike, apologies for Mick McCarthy's drab Northern accent.

Best Game: Not sure? The opener was pretty entertaining what with two red cards, a penalty save and a host of jokes regarding Greek instability & Poland's right wing element (this stuff writes itself sometimes).

Worst Game: Spain v Portugal, snoozeville. See they're not all flair and "Tika Taka"

Best Celebration: There weren't many or any unusual celebrations so I'll have to go with Balotelli's shirt off flex

Best Team: Germany, in my opinion. But that is closely followed by Spain. The best team doesn't always win!

Worst Team: Ireland, see Samaras. He scored as many as they did!

Best name: "You're a Czech!!" (Jiracek)

Best Look-a-like: Manuel Neuer looks a man from a Nazi propaganda poster or like he'd be on the East German team in Cool Runnings.

Hey, Jamaica! Watch out for Number Twelve turn. Scary, jaah?

Other notable mentions: Can we stop playing music after a goal is scored please UEFA? It's not clever. It's what teams from up north that have half empty stadiums do. We also do not need a pretentious overhead gradually zooming in, camera shot of every kick off. Nor do we need a countdown to kick off, the referee's whistle is sufficient. And goal line technology?!? Pfft, how many more times do I have to say it, Penalty or Goal, it worked when I was a kid.

So that's it, 31 games, 76 goals, 3 penalties, 3 red cars, 2 penalty shootouts and another drab performance from England and we're back where we began, Spain are still the champions of Europe. On to the David Beckhamless Olympic football tournament (Oh, the outrage! *rolls eyes*), which I will be attending. But before that I've got 10 days in Ibiza so don't expect to hear much from me at least until the 18th or so...

Check out these.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xrzg3a_itv-euro-2012-tournament-closing-montage_sport
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18668987