Wow

Good.

Grow the game a little. Huge populations in both countries. National teams that both made it to the last World Cup. If they make them build decent stadia in Poland and Ukraine, it will only help their leagues develop.

Much more exciting than Switzerland-Austria (yawn).

A real shocker, and a good one at that! Apparently it didn't hurt that Blatter was pro-Ukraine/Poland and anti-Italy on this one.

Fantastic, please someone explain to me why UEFA decided to give the Euro Championish to the two most anti-semitic countries in Europe, excluding France of course? Awful decision.

Talk about wow - I just read that Toronto has acquired Marvell Wynne for peanuts (well, a 2d rounder and partial allocation). Um, why couldn't we have done that?!

Dang.

Because RBNY aren't in the business of helping thier rivals out.

Now, before you get all tweaked, what do you bet mo trades wynne to us for Dyachenko and a 2nd rounder?

"Now, before you get all tweaked, what do you bet mo trades wynne to us for Dyachenko and a 2nd rounder?"

I'd bet pretty much anything against that.

Maybe not Dyachenko because we wanted him back, but there has got to be a trade coming with Toronto. We need, they need, simple as that. They have to unload an american as well. We have cap space.

Either that or Shalrie, who is about to start a strike says 'send me where they got money'. We got money. 450,000 large.

Guys:

This is a Euro comment area.

Thanks

Superb! Grow the game and help move those countries forward in other ways, too.

Perhaps toronoto will trade POLAND to D.C. for a 2nd round KIEV and a defensive Mid-UKRAINE.

foo!

Oops...my bad.

Oh, wait, EURO posting area, I get it. Ok, Ich denke, daß DCUnited für Wynne handeln sollte. Eine erste runde Vorwähler entweder sowie Simms oder Carroll würde genügend sein.

Good for Poland and Ukraine. I was really afraid it'd go to the cheating-@ss Italians despite their fantastic track record over the past few years.

This is both surprising and great. Per yesterday's discussion about Italy and it's depravity, it would have been a disgrace if they'd been awarded the tournament. To have suggested that another major championship in the country was the necessary impetus for cleaning up the calcio system is shameful (I don't whether this claim was made explicit, but one can imagine).

Italy has one of the most established leagues in the world, and they're not exactly hurting for money. The governing body there needs to figure out how make things work on their own - without the financial windfall from UEFA.

The economic impact of these tournaments has never been clearer, and it's comendable that those in charge have begun to spread the wealth outside the old guard.

Re: Euro comment.

Wasn't Dyachenko born in the Ukraine?