England under-21 boss Gareth Southgate watched on as his side exit the European Championship at the group stage
The England national team is often overrated, overhyped and overpaid. However, this summer’s under-21 European Championship was supposed to be the one were England’s young Lions actually lived-up to the hype.
Gareth Southgate’s team were beaten 3-1 by the Azzurrini’s of Italy and exited the competition on Wednesday night.
They will go down as yet another England team that failed at international level, as they finished bottom of their group.
Optimism
There was cause for optimism at the start of the campaign, as the likes of John Stones, Harry Kane, Saido Berahino and Danny Ings were named in a supposedly strong squad. Maybe that…
Euro 2008 finished last night with a final fitting of the entire excellent tournament. Spain beat Germany 1-0 in a thoroughly deserved victory and the best team in the competition, who scored more and conceded less than anyone else, won the whole thing. Germany were good, but just not good enough.
For this sixth and final article in the Euro 2008 who’s HOT and who’s NOT series I am going to look back at the whole tournament and hand out the overall awards.
Hot team
It is obviously not possible to award this title to anyone other than Spain. They scored the most goals, conceded the fewest and played with a breathtaking brilliance at times. Their midfield play was as good as anything I have ever seen and they weren t bad at the back or u…
Croatia fell well short of expectations as they produced an unimaginative performance in a 0-0 draw by Morocco in their World Cup Group F opener on Wednesday.
Zlatko Dalic s men – the runners-up four years ago – were strong favourites at Al Bayt Stadium but crafted few opportunities of note, the stalemate handing the early initiative to Belgium ahead of their clash with Canada.
In the stands, Croatia were so outnumbered they essentially resembled an away team, but Morocco s superior backing did not translate in to on-pitch dominance and were lucky to still be level at the break after Nikola Vlasic went close.
Dejan Lovren saw another reasonable chance go begging early in the second half, but otherwise Croatia failed to take advantage of their considerably gre…
We’re onto Week 4 of the 2021 NFL season and continue to bring you our favorite NFL parlay picks every week. This week we’re focusing on player props around the league, counting on one of the NFL’s best red zone threats, a pair of tailbacks, and a tight end with a chance to enjoy a breakout week.
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The NFL Scouting Combine kicks off on Tuesday, March 1, and runs through the weekend before coming to completion on Monday, March 7.
It’s the last stop before 2022 NFL Draft, which runs from April 28-30. We’ve already got one 2022 Mock Draft ready to go, but the combine could change things.
As such, there are plenty of combine bets available for your perusal. Here are the current NFL Draft odds for a variety of combine events ahead of Tuesday’s start.
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