World Cup 2010 Blog: “The Full Euro 2012 Opening Ceremonies” plus 2 more |  |
- The Full Euro 2012 Opening Ceremonies
- Reasons To Cause Controversy: Euro 2012 Opener
- Ukraine’s Psychic Pig Oinks
| The Full Euro 2012 Opening Ceremonies Posted: 08 Jun 2012 12:10 PM PDT For those unable to watch the most pointless ceremony in football outside of the Ballon d’Or awards 2009-____, here are your festivities from Warsaw. The good news is the whole thing didn’t collapse, necessitating an earlier start on the Poland – Greece fixture. The bad news is the same. Not simply because it to be a horror for the eyes – no. It’s because we live in a world with Michael Bay, and for some reason, none one’s made it happen yet. Another, from right before the Ukrainian premier between Russian and the Czech Republic, should be up shortly.
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| Reasons To Cause Controversy: Euro 2012 Opener Posted: 08 Jun 2012 11:37 AM PDT The greater the tournament’s stature, the lower the threshold for death-threat inducing refereeing decisions. Plus it’s just fun to cause problems from time to time. The opener between Greece and Poland had a couple such scenarios, with an early red card (two yellows) for the men in blue that was pretty suspect, but more importantly: that damn handball in the box. Was it intentional? Nope. Is slap-handling a ball in the box in any way cool? Nope. Unfortunate happenings can be penalties too. But it’s a good thing this wasn’t against the co-hosts or anything, because they never get favorable decisions… [101gg]
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| Posted: 08 Jun 2012 09:08 AM PDT
The games have opened within the last five minutes, but it’s worth announcing the psychic swine’s predictions of undoubted prescience for the upcoming games:
Update: Oink-for-one. (Apologies.)
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