Euro 2008

Apart from World Cup qualifiers Euro 2008 is also happening at the moment. Some notable results:

  • the host nations, Austria and Switzerland, both lost their opening games, to Croatia and the Czech Republic respectively, (Czech Republic then lost 3-1 to Portugal)
  • the Netherlands belted Italy, the current World Cup champions, 3-0,
  • Spain, despite being regular under-achievers, did the same to Russia 4-1,
  • the current Euro champions, Greece, went down 2-0 to Sweden in their opening game,
  • Germany looked strong in beating Poland 2-0, the 2 goals being scored by Polish-born Lukas Podolski.

Some games are being broadcast on SBS TV