EURO 2012

… roster only one player from the pair John Terry (Chelsea London) – Rio Ferdinand (Manchester United). The reason should have been a… 23, 2011.

During a league match, defender of Chelsea London, using obscene and racist vocabulary, should have offended Rio … John Ruddy and club mate of Wojciech Szczęsny from Arsenal London – midfielder Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.

Prior to Euro 2012 England’… in Oslo and six days later with Belgium in London’s Wembley.

During the tournament, Roy Hodgson’s …

Chelsea have been told they must keep their emotions in check if they are to lift the Champions League trophy in Germany on Saturday.

The west London club, who are 14/1 with bet365 to defeat Bayern Munich 2-1, are without the banned John Terry, Ramires and Branislav Ivanovic, and will be facing the German giants on their home ground.
However, they have received a boost with the news that defensive duo Gary Cahill and David Luiz are set to take part after recovering from injury.
Meanwhile, …

… and bigger.

With just over three weeks until the kick off of Euro 2012 (June 8th), those of you lucky enough to be visiting Poland and Ukraine for the matches are probably thinking of nothing else.

For those that haven’t managed to get any tickets to the live games, however, help is at hand from those nice folk at talkSPORT Radio and talkSPORT.co.uk.

Both online and on-air, talkSPORT will be providing live match commentary of every game at Euro 2012, with expert analysis from some of …

…to sell 50 thousand Euro 2012 tickets – UEFA informed on Monday, adding …In Poland there are almost no tickets for matches available.

- In Poland …we still have around 50 thousand tickets, confirmed Pedro Correia, a UEFA …normally should have already bought all tickets available for them have purchased …half of the 7,000 entrance tickets available for them so far….added.

Correia doesn’t worry about tickets purchasers and explains that it … is 95 percent of the tickets sold, because it’s almost…

… this season, while Huddersfield can be backed at 11/2.
“It is an exciting draw whoever you get in the semi-finals, as all of the teams in the hat at this stage of the competition are immensely talented. You know it’s going to be a top four or five team and that’s how it has turned out,” said Brown, who will leave Huddersfield to coach St Helens at the end of this season.
The Giants booked their place in the semi-finals with a comfortable win over Super League strugglers London Broncos.

More and more politics, less and less sports. There is a real danger that European politicians will boycott the championships in Ukraine. Will EURO 2012 be the repetition from 1980 when West Europeans countries boycotted Olympic Games in Moscow due to the Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan?

The president of Germany Joachim Gauck was the first to cancel his participation at matches in Ukraine within the framework of EURO 2012; after that Angela Merkel and her ministers announced …

… in the first leg of their Championship play-off semi-final.

The Hammers are 3/4 with bet365 to be promoted following the win at Cardiff City Stadium, but Allardyce is keen to point out the job of getting to Wembley for the final is only half done.
The London side have drawn eight games at Upton Park this season – and have also lost four – and Allardyce wants them to attack from the off on Monday.
“It was a terrific result but there’s a long way to go,” said the West Ham boss after the …

… Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish, who had hoped to call on the player for the last few games of the season.
The Scotland international is also now a doubt for the Great Britain team at the Olympics.
“There is no operation needed, but he won’t play this season,” said Dalglish. “And I would think if they had any designs on having him in the Olympics he wouldn’t be fit for that either.”

…on a completely modernized stadium.

The pompous opening of the Olympic Stadium in Kiev was a great success. The … was the famous Colombian singer Shakira.

Modernization of the Olympic Stadium began in December 2008. Before modernization the … and the European Championship in football will be known.

Olympic Stadium in Kiev in a nutshell

Beginning of construction … – 1,090km
Poznan – 1,140km
Gdansk – 1,190km

Olympic Stadium Kiev Ukraine gallery

Opening of the stadium

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… be one of the greatest stars in the German national team. And if he shows his skills well (i.e. becomes the top scorer), after EURO all West European clubs will knock themselves out over him.

Robin van Persie (Holland, Arsenal)

When Arsenal London scores a goal, everybody thinks that its author is van Persie. And they are mostly right, since the Dutch has been in a smashing shape lately. At EURO his group rivals will surely concentrate themselves on eliminating him from the game. But a…