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Some fantastic Euro 2008 look-alikes
[UK Football Finder]

Nine reasons Poland will beat Croatia
[chickendinner]

Football 365 club-by-club fixture guide
[Football 365]

QPR owner Flavio Briatore somehow persuaded WAG Elisabetta Gregoraci to marry him
[Grid Crasher]

More of Euro 2008’s hottest fans
[Pies]

Uh Oh, Blackburn are interviewing Steve McLaren for the manager’s job
[Caught Offside]

Germans and Austrians left scratching their heads this morning

On the shock German loss, this morning’s Sun newspaper lead with “Slaven Bilic’s side finally put a smile back on our faces by sticking it to the old enemy.” Presumably, if the tournament favourites had won, it would have read “Joachim Loew’s side finally put a smile back on our faces by sticking it to the old enemy.” Either way, seeing the side that defeated us twice in qualifying also defeat a quality German team was mildly therapeutic.

In Vienna, Austria were seconds away from joining co-hosts Switzerland on the reject pile when they nabbed a last minute penalty, keeping them in the tournament for a couple more days.

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Pies have christened C-Ron’s fancy new move (0:31 in the video) the ‘circle jerk’. I’m pretty sure that means something else...

Want to buy Pamela Anderson’s Dodge Viper?
[Grid Crasher]

In the spirit of Def Leppard, a Surfer who lost her arm in a shark attack is turning professional
[Sports by Brooks]

Eight reasons why Austria will beat Poland, and there will be goals
[chickendinner]

Chelsea Pies are worried that Spurs keep signing their transfer targets
[Chelsea Pies]

Wayne and Coleen are married
[BBC]

Fernando Torres doesn’t like to be touched
[Daily Mail]

Poland haven’t forgotten about that thing you did, Germany

One of the more interesting games this weekend is likely to be Sunday’s Group B clash between Poland and Germany, thanks in part to the media storm whipped up by brilliant-sounding Polish newspaper Super Express.

In an antagonistic article published this week, Poland gaffer Leo Beenhakker was instructed to “bring us their heads” by the national publication. To bring the aggressive point home, they pictured the manager clasping the bloodied heads of Michael Ballack and Joachim Loew. After the coach branded the feature “sick”, UEFA limply responded in the manner of a teacher who sees two kids fighting but carries on sitting in his chair because he can’t be bothered to go and break it up (thanks a lot, Mr Mills):

“We are