Euro 2012: Denmark 2-3 Portugal
What a strange game of football this was. Jamie Carragher in the ITV studio called it the tournament’s best to date. But Clyde Tyldesley in the ITV commentary box was...
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Euro 2012: Denmark 1-0 Netherlands
Luck, we could posit, is more complex than simply being a matter of black and white. Whilst the Netherlands have a right to feel a little aggrieved that a couple...
Euro Moments: Denmark
This mornings cartoon for the run-up to the European Championships from Dotmund features Denmark. They won this tournament once, you know, and NOBODY EXPECTED THEM TO! Don’t forget, you can see plenty more...
Euro 2012: The Runners & Riders – Denmark
It seems inconceivable that anyone will be able to mention Denmark in relation to the European Championships without turning the clock back twenty years, to when the Danes were hastily...
European Championship Stories: 1992 – A New Europe, But Old Enmities
This, perhaps, was not the new Europe that the leaders of the continents nations had envisaged when the Berlin Wall came tumbling down in November 1989. The years between the...
Is the award of a 3-0 win a suitable punishment?
On Friday, UEFA announced the punishments for the abandonment of the Italy-Serbia European Championship Qualifier. As expected, Serbia did not get off lightly. The Football Association of Serbia (FSS) were...
World Cup 2010: Japan 3-1 Denmark
Japan v Denmark has to wait until the boys on the Beeb can get Italy’s exit out of their system. But this is probably fair enough. Earlier group results have...
World Cup 2010: Cameroon 1-2 Denmark
A match so good even Peter Drury couldn’t spoil it. “Two nations living just a little on their history,” he notes, as the teams come out. And, as an English...
World Cup 2010: Netherlands 2-0 Denmark
Half way through the opening set of fixtures then, and we've already seen two of the semi-finalists in action. Only Germany have really looked good enough to be worthy of...
World Cup Preview: Group E
With the 2010 FIFA World Cup now just four weeks away, you should by now be able to visualise those wretched pull-out "Come On England" St. George's flags which come...
The World Cup Of National Anthems (Part Three)
For many people, major sports tournaments are the only occasion that national anthems are heard. These peculiar tunes have become a genre of their own, transcending the mere hymns that...