About: Gobsheen

Website: http://www.bplo.org/
Profile: Gobsheen resides in Limerick, Ireland. A lad of average height, he has been severally described as a Liverpool fan and a creator/destroyer of music. He was poached from idleness this summer by the good people of Fústar to share his own unoriginal ideas on Euro 2008. He has absolutely no left foot.

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Day 11: French, Romans and Konterman

I come to bury Italy, not to praise them. We all did. No sooner had the obituaries been written, the wreaths arranged, the Burco boiled, sangwidges made and the Temple curtain come down …

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Italian Stallions: The glue factory beckons…

Bloody hell. Holland 3-0 Italy.

That were right proper drama. Although I spent the early part of the first half trying to avoid a dubious kidney-bean salad that was being passed …

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The Underdog with an Overbite

Ah, Euro '88 was a cracker: "Ray Houghton has done it!", "Oh Whelan!", Wim Kieft and his offside winner and of course the masterful striking of Marco Van Basten - scorer of that goal …