The Final Days: Sturm und Drang
Given that all of its inaugural members are on the 'wrong' side of 30, it probably wasn't overly surprising to see the Super Euro...
Euro 2008 Category
Euroballs and (not so) Super Strikers
Euro 2008 has been the 600th consecutive major football tournament where we've heard expert voices condemning the official ball as...
Days 15 & 16: Once Upon a Time…
Last Saturday, I described Luka Modrić (that marvellous orchestrator and string-puller) as "the chief sprite in [Croatia's] bewitching...
Spain: The Shabby Case – the Shabbier the better?
There is a word in Spanish used to describe someone or something that is unbearable, something up with which one will not put. The...
Of Probability
That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation,...
Putting the ‘art’ in RTÉ
Here in Ireland the fear was voiced, in some quarters, that this tournament would be somehow devalued by Ireland’s failure to qualify....
Warming Up
The team Fústar rounded-up for this, the blogosphere's most entertaining kick-about, has played nothing short of a blinder. Reportage,...
Days 12 – 14: A Night At The Opera
"I was born like this. I had no choice.
I was born with the gift of a golden voice"
I have been silent for too long here at SESP,...
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...
Goodnight and Good Luck
Well, as they say in football-speak, the fairy tale is over for this year. A well struck, direct, no-messing-at-all free-kick from...
Days 9 & 10: Sad George and the Flying Turks
Am I the only one who feels that George "Danger Here" Hamilton has been a pale shadow of his former exuberant self of late? Sunday...
Day 8: Ten Slices of Football Pie
As the group stage rolls into its final round of matches, and the Dutch continue to pile up goal of the tournament nominations, it's...
Days 6 & 7: His name is Luka
Phew. After two positively scintillating days of Super Euro fußball (long may it continue), it's time to catch up, take stock and...
Day 5: Cats and Dogs
Though he once had a strong and guiding hand in both my country's failure to qualify for Euro 2004, and my club's exit from the Champion's...
Eis of the Tiger
[In the third of his communiques from the Austrian capital our wandering scribe 'Buckram' walks among a shocked Viennese populace,...
