Friday, June 8, 2012
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- Poland coach Franciszek Smuda reckons star striker Robert Lewandowski is heading to Manchester United
- Bet’s be ‘avin you: Pre-tournament betting tips for Euro 2012
- Top 10 players you can’t believe are at Euro 2012
- Top five fairly underwhelming major tournament opening matches (on paper)
- Ex-England manager Fabio Capello will attend Euro 2012 after all
- Watch England’s open training session live. Right now!
- Russia release rousing but thoroughly odd Euro 2012 song
- One in 10 men admit Euro 2012 glory would be better than their wedding day
- Netherlands players racially abused during open training session in Poland
- England’s Euro 2012 bus driver is a famous Polish composer
- 40 per cent of Euro 2012 players expected to be dosed up on painkillers
| Posted: 08 Jun 2012 04:19 AM PDT International tournaments are a great opportunities for coaches who are usually restricted to monthly meet-ups with their players to get the scent of the transfer window in their noses once again. That scent has become too much for Poland coach Franciszek Smuda to resist and he’s gone and stuck his oar into club transfer affairs. [...]
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| Bet’s be ‘avin you: Pre-tournament betting tips for Euro 2012 Posted: 08 Jun 2012 04:16 AM PDT An international tournament has finally arrived, allowing us the chance to smash some of our (hard-earned?) pennies. OTP will bring you a betting tips column at various stages throughout the three weeks, but today we start with our pre-tournament bets. Get them on quickly: Winner Is there any value in going for Spain or Germany? [...]
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| Top 10 players you can’t believe are at Euro 2012 Posted: 08 Jun 2012 04:09 AM PDT Whether they be Premier League flops, raw untested youngsters or over-the-hill has-beens, there are a plenty of players at the European Championships that make you do a double take at the squad lists. Here are some of OTP’s favourites: 1. Anders Svensson It’s not just that Svensson is 35 years old, and seems to have [...]
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| Top five fairly underwhelming major tournament opening matches (on paper) Posted: 08 Jun 2012 04:08 AM PDT Don’t get us wrong, we’d be tuning in to watch this afternoon’s Euro 2012 opener if it was San Marino v Andorra, but Poland v Greece isn’t exactly a glamour fixure. In fact, it’s arguably the least mouthwatering prospect of a tournament opener ever. Here are five first matches that didn’t exactly set the pulse [...]
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| Ex-England manager Fabio Capello will attend Euro 2012 after all Posted: 08 Jun 2012 04:00 AM PDT Don't worry, a contractual loophole won't see Fabio Capello back on the England bench this summer. The former international coach will be attending the European Championships in a UEFA capacity only. The Italian, who resigned as England boss in February, will be joined by former Liverpool manager Gerard Houlllier on a panel that will examine [...]
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| Watch England’s open training session live. Right now! Posted: 08 Jun 2012 03:12 AM PDT England are currently taking part in an open training session in the Polish city of Krakow. Watch it live on OTP. You’ll probably get the chance to judge for yourself whether that’s racist chanting or not…
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| Russia release rousing but thoroughly odd Euro 2012 song Posted: 08 Jun 2012 02:28 AM PDT Official national team songs are dead in the water these days. They are in England anyway, certainly ever since the FA believed a Spice Girls song could ignite terrace passions for France 98. Thankfully, not everyone has given up hope. Take a listen to this beauty from Russia. It's fair to say you really get [...]
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| One in 10 men admit Euro 2012 glory would be better than their wedding day Posted: 08 Jun 2012 02:05 AM PDT So far the build up to this international tournament has had everything – injuries, controversial squad selection, comatose friendlies and Alan Hansen talking absolute twaddle. Yet no sign of a pointless but undeniably intriguing football survey. Thankfully that glaring omission has been remedied. Courtesy of a survey from electrical chain Comet, we now know that [...]
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| Netherlands players racially abused during open training session in Poland Posted: 08 Jun 2012 01:50 AM PDT Black players in the Netherlands squad were racially abused during an open training session in Krakow, according to their captain Mark Van Bommel. The Dutch skipper was leading his side in a lap of the pitch in front of 20,000 fans when the abuse was heard by the players. After completing a second lap and [...]
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| England’s Euro 2012 bus driver is a famous Polish composer Posted: 08 Jun 2012 01:50 AM PDT Considering that England's success at Euro 2012 relies almost solely on the ability to 'park the bus’, it's only right that we tell you about the rather remarkable man behind the team bus wheel. Remember the name Zygmunt Kukla. When he's not driving the Three Lions back and forth to training and groin scan centres, Zygmunt [...]
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| 40 per cent of Euro 2012 players expected to be dosed up on painkillers Posted: 08 Jun 2012 01:30 AM PDT OTP saw a stat that told us that there had been more player withdrawals from preliminary Euro 2012 squads than any other European Championships in history. The current figure – to which England made a handsome contribution – sits at 57. That huge glut of injuries may well be explained by the incredible number of [...]
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