Posted on July 3, 2009 by houlks
AFTER a thoroughly enjoyable tournament and 16 days of watching eight teams battle it out in four different locations, it was the Germans that came out on top.
On our walk back to the hostel after the night of the final myself and Mark both discussed which players would make it in to our teams of [...]
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Posted on July 1, 2009 by houlks
Here are all our snaps from the final between England and Germany.
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Posted on June 24, 2009 by Mark Perrow
OUR last few hours in Halmstad passed as slowly as any, with hostel check out time at 11 o’clock, but the train south to Malmo not until 2:35pm.
So we passed the time in the internet cafe - me keeping tabs on Wimbledon, Houlker writing Monday’s diary on ‘Word Pad’ on the laptop to avoid paying for [...]
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Posted on June 24, 2009 by Mark Perrow
SPAIN won their first match of the tournament but it wasn’t enough to seal a passage to the semi-finals.
Juan Ramon Lopez Caro’s team were relying on an England victory over Germany in Halmstad, but Stuart Pearce’s much-changed team could not do Spain the favour they desperately needed.
Spain’s fate fell out of their hands when they lost to [...]
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