Just when you thought that Euro 2008 was going to be an excellent but predictable tournament a game comes along that throws the whole thing wide open.
Up until day six, Germany, Portugal, Holland and Spain were beginning to look invincible. The game against Croatia looked like a relatively tough one for the pre-tournament favourites Germany, but was surely not a game that they could lose.
As an England fan I was totally behind Croatia because if they could do well it would make me feel better about our abysmal failure to beat them in our unsuccessful qualification campaign. The somewhat tepid performance they had produced in beating Austria the other day didn’t look too good for them. Germany, on the other hand, had looked pretty impressive in their win…