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07-06-2008, 11:32 AM
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| Angels one-five   Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Somewhere in Time
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 |  Euro 2008 No England but what the hell. I've got Portugal in the works sweepstake. Who's gonna win? First matches kick off this evening. euro2008.uefa.com - Home Page
__________________ 'There I stood at the bar, wearing a Mae West, no jacket, and beginning to leak blood from my torn boot. None of the golfers took any notice of me - after all, I wasn't a member!' Kenneth Lee - after being shot down on the 18th August 1940. In the USAAF in World War II, over three times as many men were killed as wounded. Donald L. Miller. Avatar: SOE (F Section) agent Andree Borrel murdered at Natzweiler Camp 6th July 1944.  |
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07-06-2008, 02:57 PM
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| Senior Member   Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Randers, Denmark
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| I'm betting on Spain, but looks like it's going to be a really exciting cup.
__________________ Good night, then - sleep to gather strength for the morning. For the morning will come. Brightly will it shine on the brave and true, kindly on all who suffer for the cause, glorious upon the tombs of heroes. Thus will shine the dawn. |
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07-06-2008, 06:56 PM
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| Ostfront is where its at!   Join Date: Apr 2004
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| As ever I will waste my money on the Dutch. Love their national team but they always break my heart!!!! 
__________________ "The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse." - General Heinz Guderian "With amazement and disappointment, we discovered in late October and early November that the beaten Russians seemed quite unaware that as a military force they had almost ceased to exist." - General Blumentritt "In all my years as a soldier, I have never seen me fight so hard." Lieutenant General Wilhelm Bittrich - Commander of II SS Panzer Korps - (Commenting on the British Paratroopers at Arnhem) - September 1944 "Had Clark given more heed to Juin's views...the savage battles of Cassino would probably never have been fought and the venerable house of St Benedict would have been unscathed" Rudolf Böhmler - 1st Fallschirmjäger Division - 1944 (After the bombing of Monte Cassino) |
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08-06-2008, 03:18 PM
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| Top Moose  Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Under the stairs
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 | I'm strange. I can't support any other team except England in the football but in F1 I support a Pole (Robert Kubica) & a Finn (Heikki Kovalainen) not Lewis. I won't be bothering to get into Euro 2008. |
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08-06-2008, 07:43 PM
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| Angels one-five Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Somewhere in Time
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__________________ 'There I stood at the bar, wearing a Mae West, no jacket, and beginning to leak blood from my torn boot. None of the golfers took any notice of me - after all, I wasn't a member!' Kenneth Lee - after being shot down on the 18th August 1940. In the USAAF in World War II, over three times as many men were killed as wounded. Donald L. Miller. Avatar: SOE (F Section) agent Andree Borrel murdered at Natzweiler Camp 6th July 1944. | |
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09-06-2008, 03:28 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Buckinghamshire
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 | Seeing I support Scotland I've, like the English and Welsh supporters, had to choose another team. However, being greedy, I've gone for a few!! France (the Auld Alliance). Holland. Germany. Surely ONE of them must win?
__________________   In memory of my great uncle, 5833402 Private Percy Bradbury, 5th Bn Suffolk Regiment. Captured at Singapore and died in captivity aged 26 years.Buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery; so far from home but not from our hearts Learning about the Indian Airborne, Army Commandos, Home Guard, Paras, LRDG, SAS & SOE during the war. |
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09-06-2008, 03:50 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Feb 2008
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| Last time I checked Italy and spain were tied for second behind Germany as favorites to win. Germany looked ok yesterday but that score coould have 4-0 or 2-2 as easily as it was 2-0. Looking forward to today's matches. With France, Italy, and Holland in the same group one is definately to be eliminated before the next round. My predictions for today are France 2-0 over Romania and Italy 2-1 over the Dutch.  |
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09-06-2008, 04:17 PM
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| Senior Member   Join Date: Aug 2006
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| What can I say, Ive go for the best, and have heard that a lot of British vote for Orange,and as we play football and Italy as ever plays defending we can have them. For F1 Lewis need a new pair of specs, it was beautiful RED LIGHT |
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09-06-2008, 04:29 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Co Down, Northern Ireland
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| Needless to say but ... I am a happy bunny today. Did feel a little sorry for Lukas Podolski, he must have divided loyalties ... my family has connections to Gliwice and NRW too, so he was bound to be my lucky mascot. Husband will be shouting Allez les Bleus! d
__________________ "But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint." E Burke |
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