5 Things I learnt from watching International football here in the heart of Europe..
Saturday, 11 October 08, 10:27 PM · Comments(2)
It would be easy to ignore International weeks as an inconvenient blip in the search for glory of your own club side and generally I'm never that impressed with either the quality or excitement provided by International sides at this stage of the season. However, sitting down on a Saturday evening in Switzerland I had the opportunity to watch SIX games live through various channels and what did I learn....
Firstly the games I could watch were: 1) England v Kazahkstan 2) Switzerland v Latvia 3) Serbia v Lithuania 4) Germany v Russia 5) Roumania v France & 6) Bulgaria v Italy and what did I witness.
Well I learnt that:
1) A football fan will watch any game at any time as long as it is interesting and/or exciting which in the case of Roumania v France it certainly was. 2-0 down after 17 minutes France managed to get a draw.
2) Italian commentary is still the best to listen to even if you have no understanding of their language
3) As much as I hate Ashley Cole from an Arsenal perspective, booing a player whose team you've come to support (and after one mistake) is wrong, very wrong
4)How did Lithuania get to the top of their group considering they lost 3-0 tonight.
5)There haven't been many better long range goals than the French equaliser from Gourcuff this evening - watch it if you can...
Oh and one extra thing, Thierry Henry looks old now, don't know why but he just does..
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I agree with you about Henry. He looked old to me at the Euro and seems to have aged since then. It's about time to join Becks in MLS.
I also watched France Romania since i support Les Bleus, and Gourcuffs goal was very impressing yea. Its a bit similar to Zidanes first goal. About Henry: yea he is becoming old, but I think he can still play as a 60-minute player instead of a 90-minute player. Benzema should replace him but Benzema was invisible. Too bad Nasri wasn't called up, bye Domenech