West Ham have unveiled the former Chelsea player Gianfranco Zola as their new coach, much as predicted all week.
The 42 year old Italian replaces Alan Curbishley at Upton Park who resigned over ‘interference’ from the West Ham board room.
Most recently Zola has been working as assistant coach with the Italian under 21 side with Pierluigi [...]

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Holland brought the UEFA Euro 2008 finals alive tonight with a stunning performance that stunned the World Cup holders, Italy in the first half; and destroyed them with an exciting counter-attacking game plan in the second half.  It wasn’t as if Italy played particularly badly, just that Holland were simply on fire.
Holland 3 Italy 0 [...]

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So we are halfway through the first round of matches in Euro 2008 with Group A & B having played on Saturday & Sunday; and tonights’ gamesbeing palyed in Group C - France v Romania and Holland v Italy.
I don’t expect you to be too surprised that I have predicted the results of all four [...]

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The UEFA Euro 2008 Championship Finals are due to begin this Saturday at 4pm when co-hosts Switzerland play Czech Republic.
But the most exciting news has to be that the legendary Danny Baker returns to the 6-0-6 phone-in show for the duration of the Euro 2008 on Radio Five Live.  Surely Danny cannot be sacked for [...]

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I read a very interesting article on the Guardian website today about how foreign players have watered-down the English game.  Unlike many similar statements, this one was from an Italian, Guido Santevecchi, who spoke of the deteriation of rock solid Italian defences for the same reason - an influx of foreign players.
He attacks the four [...]

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