Turkey 3 Czech 2 - game of the tournament?

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More reaction from Dalstanbul and your Humble crew to follow. In the meantime, enjoy this. Beep, beep, beep - Türkiye!

Euro 08 will be this good?

Yet more brilliant action from the Copa America. Argentina and Mexico have been outstanding. Argentina are probably the best team in the world right now. Come on you Monsters. Troll-boy will devour the earth.

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The weekend trawl through the sports sections of too many papers and magazines produced this absolute beaut from James Montague at the New Statesman on the West Asia football championships:

Every Iraqi player in the squad has been touched by death or bad luck. Two days before the start of the tournament, the team's physio was killed in a car bombing in Baghdad. He was on the way to pick up his ticket to Amman. "I probably have the hardest job in the world as I have to deal with these boys with many problems," rues Jorvan Vieira, the Brazilian coach, before Iraq's 3-0 semi-final win against Syria. "We need to give the Iraqi people a good mirror. The division between Shia, Sunni or Kurd doesn't exist."

So, who's coming with me next year? Also who's excited by Iraq's prospects at the larger Asian tournament beginning in Bangkok this week?

Mexico!

Playing some bloody good football at the mo... Gooooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallllllllllllllllll - Mexico! Bravo, bravo, bravo.

Welsh-Basque Alliance Formed - Invasion of Spain, England Considered Imminent

In related news ETA have claimed responsibility for the 1997 deaths of Diana Spencer and Dodi Al-Fayed.

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