Comments on: Europop 2008: Group D - Sweden 0 Greece 2

By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:34:48 +0000

over 1000 downloads here too

By: jel

jel — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:54:09 +0000

PAH! My players will certainly be looking for revenge. The lads are angry about the refereeing decisions, and the hostility of the crowd. I wouldn’t want to be our next opponents.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:25:38 +0000

I can sympathise with the Swedish manager but rules are rules: his player was certainly timewasting and it was a second bookable solo. My Greek boys did their best and it turned out to be enough: not the most elegant of goals but they all count.

By: Matt DC

Matt DC — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:23:15 +0000

It’s the first major upset of the tournament, Maniche!

By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:13:25 +0000

what’s a greek urn? 3 points

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:28:31 +0000

24 hours left to vote in this one, if you haven’t.

By: fernando

fernando — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:29:14 +0000

Young, fearless greeks beats the hell out of experienced (but safe-playing) swedish eleven.

By: CarsmileSteve

CarsmileSteve — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:02:23 +0000

have to concur with AlanDC here Gary, the greeks are solid across midfield, but let down by that striker, i don’t think he could hit a cow’s arse with a banjo to be fair. think the swedes could sneak this one despite their old school tactics…

By: Doctor Mod

Doctor Mod — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 02:50:37 +0000

Sweden! How could you?!?!?!? The only team the Dutch fear, and you give us a Foreigner imitation? (Truly, that’s who I thought it was!)

The Greek thing is very 80s (and nothing wrong with that) and has a certain awkward charm. It gets my vote.

By: Matt DC

Matt DC — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:13:26 +0000

That is no mere ball-juggling from Sweden, it’s four stepovers, a flick up and then bouncing the ball off the nose while running away from the defender. Then hacked down by the Greeks’ solid, physical, eight-men-behind-the-ball electropop reducer.

Unfortunately the Greeks are too solid, too physical, some would say a bit cumbersome. I keep wanting the beat to be more limber, the bassline to be a bit more propulsive, hell, is a bit of flair too much to ask? This sounds a bit like how the Greek Doves or Snow Patrol would sound, trying to make an electropop record. And then the Greek Enya comes on as a sub, but I’m afraid the Swedes are running rings round them by now.

By: Steve Mannion

Steve Mannion — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:26:54 +0000

‘The match reports are designed to reflect the balance of reader comments within the metaphorical ‘football game’ structure.’

i like this btw - fewer votes (and fewer comments too perhaps) = fewer goals basically?

By: Steve Mannion

Steve Mannion — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:25:15 +0000

‘It’s Death Metal or crappy indie next time around I think.’

None more threatening!

By: jel

jel — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:19:59 +0000

I quite like the Greek song, it’s kinda like all those Elefant records bands that I like, but of course I am voting for Sweden. It’s Death Metal or crappy indie next time around I think. I’m going to send myself to the stands.

By: koganbot

koganbot — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:03:23 +0000

Hmmm. Sweden. I like the whole guitar-rock-becomes-hair-pomp-disco thing, and “Final Countdown” was as good at synth flourishes as anything ever. This one, I’m liking but not loving the song, in fact prefer the guitar riffs to the main melody, and like the guitar going violinish in the solo. Greece discovers robots, teaches them to sing. Perhaps they were better not singing, since they were excellent ça planning their moi at the start but became watery when the melody intruded.

This will come down to the Background Music Test, I think. Leaning Greece.

I heartily concur with the three ties that have been revealed so far, and would have preferred a tie in the Turkey-Portugal bout as well. My fave songs have been from Austria, “Croatia,” Turkey, and Portugal in that order.

By: Matt DC

Matt DC — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:58:12 +0000

Interestingly no team has yet tried packing the midfield and playing NO VOCALIST AT ALL.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:46:49 +0000

In the PWC and League Of Pop I worked hard to try and make sure the ’scorelines’ reflected the balance of voting etc etc. This time I can’t be bothered, beyond win/lose/draw: they don’t actually matter, so your 0-0 was kind of arbitrary. (Ties in the rankings will be decided on vote difference not goal difference)

The match reports are designed to reflect the balance of reader comments within the metaphorical ‘football game’ structure.

By: Lex

Lex — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:43:08 +0000

I’d rather have a less-good song done by a better vocalist than a better song ruined by a bad vocalist!

btw how come GER-POL was a 0-0 draw and the other draws were all 1-1?

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:34:35 +0000

There is another vocalist in the band (she comes on as a substitute here!) who is better but the songs she’s on are worse.

By: Lex

Lex — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:29:16 +0000

I’m tempted to give NEITHER side a vote, both these songs are kind of terrible. GRE are more deserving though: awful galumphing vocals may ruin barely-passable music, but it’s preferable to SWE: there is nothing good about naff hair metal, nothing at all. I barely made it half a minute in.

By: Pete Baran

Pete Baran — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:40:12 +0000

My views on the use of the older, superstar players beyond their prime is well known, but I don’t think the Greek’s will be phased at all by their opposition. At least Sweden are using an unusual formation, the initial surprise may throw the Greek’s - expecting them to play a different style. But by the Final Countdown, it comes down to some lovely harmonies in the chorus.

Greece by a long way I think.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:38:07 +0000

The Greek coach is quietly confident that the outrageous and disrespectful Swedish display of ball-juggling in the second half will severely backfire!

By: Steve Mannion

Steve Mannion — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:37:35 +0000

I was fond of this Swedish strikeforce 20 years ago but although elements of their game have fallen in the years since only to rise again and be adapted into the modern game, I have decided to stick to a self-imposed ‘last ten years only’ policy when it comes to voting. As it happens I think the Greeks match up on this occasion hurrah but it could be another 0-0…

By: Matt DC

Matt DC — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:26:07 +0000

We’re anticipating a tighter game here than many have predicted - the Swedes would like you to think they’re tough-tackling hardmen but I bet they’re really a team of preening ponces underneath.

Meanwhile the Greeks will be relying on plucky underdog status and possible complacency from their opponents, plus bags of enthusiasm of course. Still, you can get away without the greatest players in the world if the ones you do have are well-organised, well-drilled and committed. Promises to be an intriguing tie.