Euro 2008

[Proletariat]

Hey Proletariat, are you actually watching the games and are you interested in soccer at all, or are you just trying to beat our ridiculously bad bets for fun? If the first applies, I'd love to see you analyzing a game or team one of these days.

Hey Adrian, I'm realising now that I've ignored this soccer fun for too long. I had been interested in the sport for awhile, but it's difficult to follow over here with the lack of coverage so I never got into it. When I saw all the Org a flurrying over this Euro08 and it was being broadcast here in the States, I decided this would be the best time to get my feet wet.

Most of the games come on while I'm at work, but I've been able to catch the first hour of all the early games this week, and I'll be making sure I'm alert enough by 12am tomorrow to catch Spain and the dreamy Fernando Torres (whether he has a mullet or not).

For my analysis so far on today's match: Italy is making a grave mistake here and if I were the coach, I'd make certain my team scored often. If Italy had 3 points right now it would be a very different game, and Romania would be ready to go home or just concede. Once the Italians realize that scoring more than the Romanians is key here, the match will be in the bag.

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To be honest, as much fun as I'm having watching, I don't have enough of a grasp to analyze a match yet. To me it's like trying to analyze how water swirls around rocks in a stream, it just seems to flow and react. I can understand defensive traps and offensive ploys in NFL, and the acute tension in a pitcher's duel in baseball, so maybe with time I'll figure out how these formations work and how a soccer play actually unfolds. Craterus has been awfully patient with me in the chat explaining basics, but I think I may need the most powerful education tool of all to get the fundamentals down, a good video game.

This Italy vs Romania has been very exciting so far, with alot of the high flying attacks I wanna see. Go Italy!