Euro 2012: The Quarter-Finals – Germany 4-2 Greece
This evening, as we have been reliably, repeatedly and at great length informed over the last few days, is more than a football match. This evening, apparently, is all about...
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Euro 2012: Group A – The Final Day
The bunting will be hanging limp in Warsaw and Wroclaw this afternoon. Poland, the co-hosts of the 2012 European Championships, have been eliminated from the competition at the end of...
Euro 2012: Czech Republic 2-1 Greece
Greece’s manager Fernando Santos knew what was coming – in the first half at least. He had his head down, his eyes shut and his hand wiping a furrowed brow...
Euro 2012: Greece 1-1 Poland
Euro 2012 kicked off with a bang as the opening game served up something for everyone. Two goals from comedy goalkeeping errors, a controversial sending off, a cast-iron sending off,...
Euro Moments: Greece
Euro Moments continues today courtesy of Dotmund and the 2004 European Champions....
World Cup 2010: Argentina 2-0 Greece
No-one has done it single-handedly before. And whatever Lionel Messi achieves during the rest of his football career, nothing will surpass his transformation of Argentina – and one managed by...
World Cup 2010: Greece 2-1 Nigeria
Finally the tournament has come to life. In the twenty four hours before this game we've had some fine football played by Switzerland, Uruguay and Argentina, some drama and a...
World Cup 2010: South Korea 2-0 Greece
Statistics are often as misleading as they are informative. On one hand this game is between the 2004 European Championship winners and the 2002 World Cup Semi-Finalists. Another way of...
World Cup Preview: Group B
The 19th FIFA World Cup kicks off in eight weeks today, and as such Dotmund continues his almost-in-depth look ahead to this summer's festivities. Today he continues his...
The World Cup Of National Anthems (Part One)
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...
Greece 0-2 Sweden
I don’t, with any conscience, have much time for ITV’s match summariser Jim Beglin. Unlike most other Liverpool players of the 1980s, I have no idea what he looks like...
Euro 2004 – Group D
Finally, Group D. One of the curiosities of media coverage of this group so far has been the enthusiasm with which writers have reached into their big bag of cliches....