Depending on the color of your shirt, the last few days of EURO 2008 have been the best/worst in some time. You are either proud of your worthy underdogs or still in shock that your team picked the wrong time of the tournament to be average.
Just what was in the Portugese/Dutch/Croatian pre-game water? Why were [...]
Entries from June 2008
June 22, 2008
Where Did It All Go Wrong (Right)?
June 19, 2008
Put That Loofah Down, Jens!
Who were we at COTAH to tell the big dodgy German ‘keeper when to bathe. Stop the taps! Put away the soap! Return those flip-flops to your locker Jens, ‘cos the German’s march on!
A thoroughly deserved win against a Portugal side that only got going when provoked. Interesting to note that the majority of [...]
June 19, 2008
Dripping Like a Wet Melon … (quarter finals time)
The quarter finals are here, and every match-up makes the mouth water. Well, the Turkey-Croatia game will be good, at the very least.
Germany-Portugal, Turkey-Croatia, Holland-Russia, and Spain-Italy has a little something for everyone. Each game promises much and, fingers crossed, will deliver.
This is definitely ’sqeaky-bum’ time, but in a refreshing way, winning in this tournament seems to have been more [...]
June 19, 2008
Yellow Submarine (has great big hole in it)
Sweden out. The team which always makes it to the qualifying rounds of every tournament were a shadow of their former selves. Jlungberg, Larsson et al looked a step behind and a yard back from the nimble Russians. Sad to see “Henky” exit without a goal, but at 36, playing in elite international tournaments is beyond [...]
June 17, 2008
Relentless Forward [Orange] Progress
“I love you boss, don’t change” …
Nine changes to the Dutch lineup and still a 2-0 victory over what has been seen to be quite a classy Romanian team. If you have not already, check out Van Persie’s goal in this game (see video’s to the right of this post). It’s a bit special.
The color of this EURO [...]
June 16, 2008
Like a Really Bad Birthday …
… no surprise today, kids.
Germany made tough going of it, though they were never threathened in their 1-0 win against Austria. Austria were exactly what it said on the tin: organised, fit, up-for-it, and about as likely to score as a hobbit in a knocking shop.
Croatia, meanwhile, continue to show their growing (and limitless?) class as they made 9 changes [...]
June 15, 2008
Czech [it] mate
“All he had to do was catch it” …
Of all the keepers to make a bollocks of a routine catch, you’d bet the house on it not being Peter Cech. But that’s the game, right? Just when you think the game is drawing to a predictable end, it gets turned upside down.
TAXI PLEASE !
Fair play to the Turks for battling [...]
June 15, 2008
Euro 2008 … Spain 2, Sweden Gutted
“All he had to do was kick it out” ….
The one thing that hurts even more than getting kicked between your own posts is conceding a goal in the last minute of the game.
Take an uncertain swede, mix with one lethal Spanish finisher, and this is what you get:
The swedes now have to beat Russia to qualify, [...]
June 14, 2008
Welcome. Come Back Often.
Welcome to ‘A Cup of Tea At Half Time’, a blog about football.
Welcome to the COTAHT blog, a place to read, discuss, and comment on football.
It’s not like it uses to be, and never will be. But that’s part of the game, isn’t it? We move forward, with the ball, chasing endlessly down back lanes, across [...]
