Spain, Champions of Europe 2008

For once, the best team won! You might remember my post labelled This, That, and the Other... (1) where I tipped Spain to be the Euro Champions? I hope everyone who read that post put a little cash on them? Let's face it Germany only had one real world class player and we all know who that was - Chelsea's Ballack. The rest of the German team, especially the defence would have been better suited to the English Championship so their achievement in my opinion was actually making it to the final in the first place because when they got there, there was absolutely no way they would knock down the flowing prowess of Spain. Villa benched and my man of the tournament Fabragas starting and they still looked like they were untouchable. Pretty much every player had a great game, and a great tournament so it's hats off to them and congratulations to a team that entertained us (along with the occasional flash of brilliance from Holland and Croatia) all the way through the Championship and nearly made us forget the fact that England didn't even qualify. All in all a pretty good tournament and I support future plans to play the tournament with 24 teams rather than 16 so here's to a good 2012. Cheers.

Spain, Champions of Europe 2008