Why they hate each other: Croatians still bitter about Mohács (they’re from the Balkans…they know how to hold a grudge)
Why Croatia should win: If you’ve been living under a rock for the past two months, Croatia manager Slaven Bilic not only put together the Croatia team, but his rock band, Rawbau wrote and preformed “Vatreno [...]

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Hate Each Other Because: Christiano Ronaldo now controls over half of the world’s hair gel supply
Key Matchup: Mario Gomez v. the Ball. Mario Gomez is turning into Euro 2008’s version of Frank Lampard: lots of shots on goal with no results. The only difference is that Fat Franky is a midfielder and Gomez is a [...]

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Romania v. France
Hate Each Other Because: Eh, not actually that much hatred here.
Key Matchup: The French and Romanian rosters v. ESPN announcers. We know that they’re calling the games from a basement in Connecticut and that the color men are Tommy Smyth and Andy Gray, but damn, have some professional pride. The Poland-Germany fixture was [...]

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I’ll try to have a preview of every Euro 2008 game, but I’ll probably lose interest within the week. With that said, here are previews of this weekend’s matches.
Saturday:
Switzerland v.  Czech Republic
Hate Each Other Because: can’t decide who’s teachings were more heretical, John Calvin or Jan Hus.
Matchup to watch: Philippe [...]

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