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BEST TEAM: France. For once, the tournament's best team won the tournament.
Runner-Up: Netherlands. Their stunning demolition of Yugoslavia showed the world exactly how football should be played.

Spain! Runnerup: Italy (actually I think they were the best, overall.)

BEST PLAYER: Zinedine Zidane (France).
Runner-Up: A toss-up between Luis Figo (Portugal), Alessandro Nesta (Italy) and Edgar Davids (Holland).


STOP, STOP, STOP with this Zidane lark! You're all like a load of sheep! Figo. Cannavaro. Nesta. Gomez. Mendieta.

BEST MATCH Spain 4 Yugoslavia 3 by a street. Simply breathtaking.
Runner-Up: Slovenia 3 Yugoslavia 3.


Agree. It had everything in it. Superb. Best ever. Runner-up: France v Spain.

WORST MATCH: Sweden 0 Turkey 0.
Runner-Up: England 1 Germany 0. It may have been compelling viewing if you were English (or, probably to a lesser extent, German) but the football itself was utter garbage.


Agree, Sweden v Turkey. Second Holland v Yugoslavia - it was a farce. All the Norway games too! Oh and Denmark, *yawn*.

CHRIS SUTTON'S SOULMATE: Alessandro del Piero (Italy). The highest paid player in the world turned out to be arguably the most over-paid player in the world/probably the most over-weight striker at the tournament/the man who fluffed two golden chances to sew up the title for Italy.
Runner-Up: Raul (Spain). Was labeled as a 'footballing great' after his heroics in Real Madrid's European Cup success, but a great player wouldn't have missed that penalty against France. The contrast with Zidane's nerveless spot-kick against Portugal are stark.


Zidane (honest - I don't see what all the fuss is about. But then, I'm a girlee, eh?) Followed by the entire Dutch squad (cept Bouds!) + Franck bleedin' Leboeuf.

BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT: Spain. When, oh when, will football's perennial under-achievers make an impact on the international stage?
Runner-Up: Tempting to say 'all the people who predicted Spain would win' (which includes myself) but Kevin Keegan's motley crew just shade it. Not many people expected England to do well, but fewer thought they would be that bad. Embarrassing is probably the politest description.


I wasn't disappointed in any of it. Certainly not in Spain. You don't have to like a team just because they achieve things. It was wonderful tournament. Possibly some of the off-side decisions were disappointing. Like the ones that led to the French goals. Oh, and I was very disappointed for the Czech Republic. Such bad luck. They deserved to beat the Dutch and maybe the French too.

BEST GOAL: Joao Pinto, Portugal v England. After passing the ball from one side of the pitch to the other until the English defence - and everyone who was watching - felt dizzy, Rui Costa's low, driven cross was headed in by a diving Pinto. It was the moment the Portuguese 'Golden Generation' finally came of age.
Runner-Up: David Trezeguet, France v Italy. Any goal that wins a European Championship has to be good; but the Juve-bound striker's stunning left-foot half-volley really was a fitting way for the tournament to be won.


Agree on Joao Pinto. Second, I would put Fiore's goal v somebody (his only!)

WORST MISS: Either of Del Piero's two botched one-on-ones in the final. The first was reasonably well struck but hopelessly wide; the second was on target but Fabien Barthez could have thrown his hat on it. Still, Del Piero can take comfort from those humongous wages and the fact that his missus was, rather aptly, voted Miss Euro 2000 by 365 readers.
Runner-Up: Yes, one of his more illustrious colleagues should have been ahead of him in the queue. Yes, he doesn't get much practice at penalties. Yes, he is a centre-half. But did you see how far Jaap Stam managed to miss the goal by in the penalty shoot-out between Netherlands and Italy? The jokes about the ball hitting weather satellites/Mars/landing in New York may have worn a bit thin after a while but they probably weren't far off the mark either.


Yup, Stumpy without a doubt. All the Dutch misses were hilarious!! However, if you want a "real" miss, then it has to be Ljundberg's miss against Italy

TOO GOOD FOR HIS TEAM: David Beckham (England).
Runner-Up: Pavel Nedved (Czech Republic), just pipping Slovenia's Zlatko Zahovic.


I think it's wrong to have this question. How can anybody say anybody's too darned good to play for his country?

REVELATION OF THE TOURNAMENT: Nuno Gomes (Portugal). Where the hell did he come from?
Runner-Up: Thierry Henry (France). Reproduced his Premiership form and gave the French the cutting edge they were so obviously missing in the World Cup two years ago, when he was merely a much maligned winger.


Gaizka Mendieta. Well, he wasn't a revelation to me, but seems nobody else knew who he was before the tournament. All I've said about him in the past has been vindicated. HOW COME this writer did not know who Nuno Gomes was?? I find the lack of knowledge amongst so-called football experts alarming. Watch Eurosport or something, for goodness sake. The worst I heard was Terry Venables, saying that nobody had heard of Fabio Cannavaro before this tournament. WHAT??????????? And they want him as England manager again. About right, I suppose.

BIGGEST SHOCK: Just how incredibly good Euro 2000 was from start to finish. There were occasional blips - always seeming to involve Norway - but overall the quality of football on show was exceptional. The greatest tournament ever? Possibly.
Runner-Up: Italy reaching the final. Written off before the tournament began and without form or Christian Vieri, the Azzurri looked to be heading for an early exit rather than Rotterdam on July 2. But courtesy of the best defence in the tournament, and a little help from Lady Luck in the draw and that shoot-out, they nearly pulled off the impossible.


Nothing was a shock for me! It was good that the tournament was amazing though - but not a shock. The quality of the games might have come as a shock to people who follow England and the Premiership only. People who follow other leagues in Europe, would not have been shocked in the least. Italy weren't a surprise either. People who wrote them off before the tournament even started don't know an awful lot about football.

BIGGEST HOWLER: It's neck and neck between Belgian keeper Filip de Wilde stepping on the ball and falling over in the first match of the tournament, and, erm, the clanger by Belgian keeper Filip de Wilde that allowed Turkey to score their first in a 2-0 win that knocked the co-hosts out at the group stages. De Wilde was also sent off in the dying moments. And who said the Belgians were boring?
Runner-Up: Philip Neville's 'tackle'. Even thinking about it gives me the shivers.


The biggest howler for me was Camacho's team selection in Spain's first game. And him leaving Morientes at home. Unforgiveable.

CLOWN OF THE TOURNAMENT: Sinisa Mihajlovic. Without him, Yugoslavia beat Norway 1-0. After their lummox of a libero was sent off, ten Yugoslavs came back from 3-0 down against Slovenia to snatch a 3-3 draw. With Mihajlovic on thr field, they conceded 13 goals in just over three and a half matches. That can't just be a coincidence.
Runner-Up: Philip Neville/Filip de Wilde. Be warned: naming your offspring Philip appears to have dire consequences...


Perhaps they should've called him Neville like his father?! The English commentators were the clowns.

MOST MEMORABLE MOMENT: If you are English then it has to be either 1) The first competitive defeat of Germany in 34 years or 2) The moment you saw Neville dive into that tackle on Viorel Moldovan inside the area, accompanied by the certain knowledge it was all going to go so horribly wrong...
Runner-Up: Zidane's run in the semi-final against Portugal. Brilliant skills, brilliant player.


Alfonso's goal against Yugoslavia. Whoopeee!! Runner-up: the Italians crying at the end of the final. I was too. :(

FUNNIEST MOMENT: France's Christophe Dugarry playing against Spain with two pieces of cotton wool stuffed up his broken, bleeding nose in a bizarre homage to The One Where Blackadder Pretends To Be Insane.
Runner-Up: King Of Comedy Dugarry being hit full on his battered beak by the ball during Sunday's final. Some found his squeal the funniest; others opted for the all-too brief reappearance of his nasal pluggage at the start of the second half. Either way, bloody hilarious.


Stam's miss.

WORST REFEREEING DECISION: Anything by either England's Graham Poll or, in particular, Scotland's Hugh Dallas.
Runner-Up: Not sending Phil Neville off for the foul on Moldovan and therefore making sure he is suspended for England's next three competitive matches.


The German ref in the France v Portugal game, taking his linesman's word that Xavier's had "deliberately" handballed. Man, he couldn't SEE it - it has been proved. And he asked him twice. There were penalties coming right up. Why give that one? Stinks of corruption; it really does.

BEST WHINGE: "There will be a lot of people who are happy now after what happened to us but the ones who are the most happy will be UEFA'' - Portugal's Luis Figo after his side had been beaten by Zidane's golden goal penalty. Twas all a conspiracy? Hmmm. Last time I checked, handling the ball in the penalty area results in a spot kick being awarded.
Runner-Up: "You could see from an aeroplane that it was a penalty. The Italian defender deserved a red, not me a yellow" - Romania's Gheorghe Hagi after being sent off in the quarter-finals. Yet another player who seems to spend too much of his time watching The X Files.


Everything Kluivert said and did. Nah, he wasn't as bad as normal, I suppose. I'll think of something.

BEST QUOTE: "Phil Neville has just got better and better as the tournament has gone on" - Kevin Keegan the day before the Romania match. Nice one, Keggy.
Runner-Up: "What Zidane can do with a football, Maradona could do with an orange" - Michel Platini brings some perspective to the media's drooling tributes to France's balding playmaker.


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BIGGEST GRIPE: That the tournament was over so soon. Euro 2000 had fewer games in its entirety than France 98 had in its group stages. Is there any way that we can make more countries European?
Runner-Up: Sure, the tournament had flair, goals by the bucketful, the best team won and all that - but where were the blood-chilling fouls and the mass brawls that keep us on the edge of our seat?


I do agree. Perhaps the whole qualifying thingie (which nobody takes too much notice of) could be made part of the tournament. Have loads of games then, wouldn't we?!!?

These are all my additions!

BIGGEST RELIEF:

The day after the end of the tournament when I didn't get a newsletter, written all in Dutch, from one of the Dutch sites in my inbox! Phew! (I'd inadvertently subscribed to it - not understanding the lingo!)

BEST HAIR:

Abel Xavier!

WORST HAIR:

Francesco Totti. I just don't get the point of it.

PRETTIEST(:)):

Patrik Berger - the *only* pretty one.

SCARIEST:

Jan Koller. Frightful. Or that other Czech bloke they threw on - the one with the bolt through his neck.

BEST KIT:

Spain's away - but we never got to see it.

WORST KIT:

England's. Followed closely by the Italian white thing. I don't like white.

WONDERBRA WONDERWHY:

Why were we forced to look at this woman (Mrs Karembeu) during every half-time involving the French?? She could've stayed home with her husband (who just as well have!). Wait til the chemical air in Middlesbrough starts shrivelling up those implants!!! :))