Holland.
We call them Holland, The Netherlands, the Dutch.
Gotta sort things out. They speak Dutch, and they are the Dutch.
I guess they could be called Hollanders or Nederlanders.

Ok. I looked some stuff up. Its a mess.

Goal early by Croatia or Turkey and we got a good game methinks.

Nor mine
:D

OMG

Turkish Miracle #2

just unbelievable...


had to sit through 2 hours of awful football but the last minute was worth it..

You see that tiny seam SENTURK had to get the ball thru? What a clutch shot. They have chronically weak D, but they are pretty clutch shooters. They got a lot of yellow cards today. Unlike most of their penalty problems, they didn't deserve very many of those yellows today. Nihat went down with maybe a hammy. Don't know if anybody good will be left to play. Will need miracle #3. This is the drama club. How much time did they have left? 5 seconds?

Great game by Russia today.
That little guy they got up front that looks
like Ashton Kutcher is incredible. He is the best
player I have seen so far (knowlege very lacking
so Brock chime in)

And that tall blond fella firing rockets from
what seemed to be midfield has the monster
leg of the tournament.

Really entertaining game.

first guy is Arshavin who has been just splendid to watch..

2nd guy is Denis Kolodin..

have to say that i thought Russia thought the Dutch a lesson in football last night. tactically better, more creative, more passion, much fitter, it was astounding.. They have improved so much from their opening game hamering against the Spanish. they might face them again in the semis id nearly fancy them to reverse form..

Spain Italy now is more chess, but interesting.. Italians are wiley old guys but are missing their two key players in midfield Pirlo and Gattuso. Spain usually choke when they are favoured, and have lost 3 times in a quarter final on penalties on June 22nd, in 1986, 1996 and 2002. Could it be 2008 as well?

What club team does he play for?
It may have been the horrible Dutch defense,
but I saw some hesitation moves I have never seen before.
He is extraordinarily gifted with the ball. He had to make
an impact on some professional team? (Unless the Dutch made him look good)

You got the matchup.

I hate the Italian's style so I am glad they lost.
Spain v. Russia should be much more interesting.

^^ Expectations too high.

bump in case Brock reads this.

He has no expectations.

If this is a European Championship Tournament, then why is Turkey or Greece in it? For entertainment purposes?

Or Russia...

Im glad Russia and Turkey are in it. They have some of the
best games of the tournament.

I can tell you, for sure, though that it's best for all involved if Turkey goes down now. Has already been many people killed from them shooting guns off in the air(in celebration.) If they get anymore wins I think they would be so geeked up that they might just try to take over the Greek area of Cyprus. I mean this is a country where the government is about to be kicked out for allowing women to wear headscarfs to college. They are basically children.

Same thing happens when one of our teams wins a championship.

Or when the Lions win any two games in a row.

Detroit: Where the weak are eaten alive.

Jeezzzz.
You live in Detroit?

Why?
That has got to be one of the most
brutal cities in the US along with maybe Oakland.

We have small pockets of Turkey, but even there, they don't usually shoot guns off until they've actually won something that atleast comes with a trophy or a flag. These people shot guns off (in a lot of places) after getting to just the quarterfinals.

http://thestar.com.my/sports/story.a...275&sec=sports

"Hold Your Fire"....LOL..What goes up...usually comes down.

apparantly, turkey only have 13 players available for the game tonight because of injuries and suspensions. so they have only 1 outfield sub.

and in some 6 and a half hours of playing time, they have been leading for just under 8 minutes of it.. incredible stuff.

good luck to them tonight, they have brought plenty of interest to the tourny..

The Spain Russia game is the one I am looking forward to.

Turkey lost their goalkeeper also in all that mess.

If they want to win today, they better bring ALLAH (on a sugar hi.)

If they win today they might have enough
belief to actually attack and take Cyprus and Greece.
Blitzkrieg of the latent Ottoman Empire.

Can you believe they are still bent about the Ottoman Army getting beat while trying to take Vienna? The newspapers there have played up the fact they are defeating the Euros in Vienna. "The Ottomans would be proud." They just got a bad call against them(BORAL's perfectly legal tackle.) From what I have seen, most of the suspensions were not warranted, but they caused them by running their mouths. Their Ultranationalism (and infatuation with the superiority of their own blood) has cost them a lot of good players.

lol....Turks EASILY SCORE 1ST!!! LOL

unreal, they are by far the better team at the moment and they are missing so many key men.. go on the turks..

Nice deflection by Schweizzleshizer for the equalizer.

Beyond human..LOL...Turk D is crap. Don't know how much longer they can get away with that. Good O, and weak D. They do a good job with ball possession, and it covers up their poor D. In every game, the Turks control ball possession very well. That appears to be their only defensive plan.

The Germans are still playing like they
dont know each other.

Chances remain.

Oh goood gosh a little head stapling.
Turks dont use stiches.

its been a cracking little match here. Germany have hardly shown up but they are still well in it.. They'll get the hair dryer treatment and wake up for the 2nd hakf i think..

Even when the Turks have been down by a couple goals, they have controlled possession time by a lot. Is that a tradition, or is it just this particular coach that instills that?

more the coach and the passion and belief that he has instilled in the players..

ive never seen turkey play this well before and that includes when they got to the semis in WC 2002.. Take the fella Kazim Kazim, who was known as Kazim Richards when he played in England (Im pretty sure he is english but has a turkish-cypriot mother!!) - one of the worst players you can possibly imagine, but here he is looking very threatening in a championship semi final

DID HE JUST GET BURNED? He the one who slipped?

WOW...What a pass on the give and go!!

Whoever is in charge of the television feed should be tied up and dragged through town. Mother nature included...

Thunderstorm in Austria apparantly. were all affected.. this has been some game..

Even when the Turks got beat, very few saw it...LOL.

From what I saw, the Turk goalkeeper shouldn't have given up the last 2 goals(the header goal especially.) Bad D caught up with the Turks. That guy who slipped is gunna remember that a long time.

Kazim Kazim :-)

He never looked up to see what took place. He couldn't watch.