EM Pics (days 1-3)

A quick Europa Meister update as of Mon, Day 3, when we bought evening seats in Zürich's temporary FanZone stadium to watch unfortunately the dullest match of the tournament so far, flat France against a bunkered Romania. The late game (watched from home) more than made up for it, however, as a Dutch team played their opening match more like a final game and completely outskilled, outhustled and abused defending whiner world champs Italy, 3-0. Italy's luck finally completely deservingly deserted them, and we'll see how the diving, overdramatic, cheap-shot-artist jerkfaces fare without a complete cake walk to the semifinals like in WC 2006.

Various pics from Saturday's (Day 1) and Monday's (Day 3) craziness here: http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=2hd8fyj.42v3k5hv&x=0&y=nzqgje&localeid=en_US