Regarding Italy I agree with the comments made that they are bad losers. Remember the last world cup? When they where knocked out by South Korea they blamed the Ecuadorian(sp) referee. Okay he didn't have the best of matches but the simple fact is they failed to take their chances. If Vieri had scored that chance he had they would have went through, it was their fault not anyone else's. And then the Italian Club Perugia sacked the South Korean player Ahn(who played for them) who scored the goal that knocked them out! Talk about bad losers!
Tonight's big match: Should be a cracker!
People talk about Spain blowing it but if anything so far in the tounrnament it's Portugal who have looked like doing that. And remember Spain beat Portugal easily 3-0 in a friendly recently, and really looked the suprior side(although I admit that will count for nothing come kick off). I find it amusing when people constantly go on about Spain underachieving in major tournaments. I live in N. Ireland and have acsess to English TV stations, they constantly go on about Spain underachieving so they say they won't win the title but say England can! Nonsense! England have only qualified out of the group stages of the European Championships ONCE (Euro 96) and they were hosts! Spain have a far better record than England at Euro championships. Yet I don't hear people saying Enland will blow it against Croatia! Why?
