June 2008 - Diary

Jonathan Wilson's Diary - June 29, team of the tournament

Jonathan Wilson / 29 June 2008 / Leave a comment

Jonathan gives us a little insight into life as a football writer: they all gather around and discuss who's going to make the team of the tournament. Anyway, here's his......Read more »

Jonathan Wilson's Euro 2008 Diary: Weary Jonathan on the eve of the final

Jonathan Wilson / 28 June 2008 / Leave a comment

Our diarist is in need of fourty winks after a hectic tournament. Catch up with him on the last leg of his European voyage....Read more »

Jonathan Wilson's Diary June 27: In praise of Uefa ponchos, brittle brilliance and very good Spain

Jonathan Wilson / 27 June 2008 / Leave a comment

With the freshness of the new Euro powers gone, Jonathan Wilson is grateful for his mac as the tournament erupts into a famailiar finish....Read more »

Valencian drummer in Vienna wouldn't change for all the tea in China

Jonathan Wilson / 26 June 2008 / Leave a comment

Jonathan Wilson's cosmopolitan diary update from Vienna. Read his views on giant hailstones, Valencian drumming legends and moronic football fans of all nations....Read more »

World Record Billboard at Euro 2008 - Betfair has Guinness World Record with biggest-ever advert

Editor / 25 June 2008 / Leave a comment

British online betting company Betfair have been ploughing their efforts into catching the eye of football fans flying into Vienna for the closing stages of Euro 2008 - by growing the world's biggest ever billboard....Read more »

The "expertise" of Steve McClaren and Berti Vogts

Jonathan Wilson / 25 June 2008 / 2 Comments

Jonathan Wilson was bemused enough to hear Steve McClaren being described as an "expert"... until he heard that Berti Vogts was as well. Jonathan takes the opportunity to consider Vogts' career and throws in a few anecdotes about the man...Read more »

The two sides to Vienna and 14-man Turkey

Jonathan Wilson / 24 June 2008 / Leave a comment

Jonathan Wilson talks downtown Vienna, subterranean communities, Schweinsteiger's preferential treatment and Faith Therim's selection problems...Read more »

Bureaucracy, narcissistic fans and Italy's exit

Jonathan Wilson / 23 June 2008 / Leave a comment

Jonathan Wilson updates us with his latest movements at Euro 2008...Read more »

'Arshavin The Unplayable' lifts Russia to rare heights

Jonathan Wilson / 22 June 2008 / Leave a comment

Russian football expert and enthusiast Jonathan Wilson on the Arshavin-led conquering of the Dutch...Read more »

Hiddink's Russia show a shift in eastern European football power

Jonathan Wilson / 21 June 2008 / Leave a comment

Russia supplied just two of the first XI in the Euro 88 final, there are a few more than that in Jonathan Wilson's fantasy Soviet Union first team...Read more »

Hats off to the mullets

Jonathan Wilson / 20 June 2008 / Leave a comment

Jonathan Wilson is relieved to find some ridiculous haircuts and wonders if the next Chelsea manager is developing a turnip complex....Read more »

Will you please be quiet about Ron... please?

Jonathan Wilson / 19 June 2008 / 1 Comments

Speculation ahead of tonight's quarter-final is hardly total football but Jonathan Wilson's mouth is already watering over the prospect of an attacking feast on Saturday....Read more »

Bern is the capital of Holland but there's no bating the natives

Jonathan Wilson / 18 June 2008 / Leave a comment

Our man in the Bern pit cautions that, while the Dutch have maintained momentum, only one nation have managed to win every game since 1980. And look what happened to them last night......Read more »

Decision day for France and Italy

Jonathan Wilson / 17 June 2008 / Leave a comment

There may be no day and no night for Jonathan Wilson but a date with destiny is dawning in the group of death....Read more »

A very noisy championship

Jonathan Wilson / 16 June 2008 / Leave a comment

Wild Turkish delight, 26 trucks of turf, four hours sleep: the omens for German victory are gathering with the rain clouds, says Jonathan Wilson....Read more »

Euro 2008 fan zones (or why I've died and gone to hell)

Jonathan Wilson / 15 June 2008 / Leave a comment

Jonathan Wilson has a good old rant about fan zones and the cynical commercialism of football that they represent. Oh, and he met Hansi Muller and asked him about losing to Austria in the European Championships thirty years ago....Read more »

As Holland tore France apart I'm glad I can say "I was there"

Jonathan Wilson / 14 June 2008 / Leave a comment

Jonathan Wilson wonders whether Ruud Van Nistelrooy's spinning double drag-back to set up Holland's second against France will be mentioned in the same breath as the Cruyff turn in years to come. At present though, Holland are looking the real...Read more »

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