Heyho boys and girls and other creatures that read this blog.
The Euro Champs are upon us.

Here are my amateurish tips for it. Spain, Germany and Holland are the favourites to take it down, then come le French on the 4th place, conisdering bwin odds.
The groups:
A
first reaction

Second reaction...THOSE russians. I think they will steamroll this group. At least they should. The Polish guys should do fine as well, given their home advantage and awesome players- Szczesny, Kuba, Piszcek, Lewandowski.
Didn't watch the Czech team, but I know they lost vs Hungary in a friendly, that should tell you plenty ♦
Shirokov is a potential beast to look out for this tournament. Had a great season with Zenit. Will be interesting to see how Arshavin does, I saw him on 2 friendlies, he is actually RUNNING for the ball.
1. Russia
2.Poland
3.Czech Rep.
4. Greece
B

The goal machines are in this group. Hopefully the topscorer is going to emerge from these teams. Van Persie, Gomez, Podolski...

Girl look at that squadsheet... what a team. One of the favourites for taking down the title and rightfully so. Talent and established players all over the place. But it won't be easy against the Silver Surfer dutch team...but I'm pretty sure that they are going to come in as runner ups again, because Robben is in their team and he grabs every silver medal he can...
Portugal...if they take the ball off C.Ronaldo, they won't cause many problems. Watched their friendly game against turkey...CR shined, the defending was horrific, just don't see them advancing from this group unless Zegermanz or the Oranje herps derps something together.
Denmark after seeing the draw for the groups:

But have no fear Bendtner is here...I'll make my annual 1euro- Bendtner for top goalscorer bet, and will do until he retires. I still hope that they will finish on 3rd ahead of Portugal...

1. Germany
2. Holland
3. Denmark
4. Portugal
inb4 Portugal wins the group
oh and I have a bet with a friend that VanPersie will score more than 2 goals on the euros...talk about free money...
C
Spain to take it down, even with these strikers. When I saw that Soldado wasn't inclueded in the squad:

but this guy was:

....

Soldado 27 goals....torres 11. Soldado in form, torres LOL...
But Vicente might prove me wrong when torres scores 16 goals on teh tournament. But if he'll start before the in form Llorente I'll just give up on trying to figure out what goes on in that big man's head, behind that mustache...
I must note that in this group I'm going to be the most biased, cause I like the Croatians, after all they are our neighbours and I understand their language ♦ aaaaand hate Italy. So I really hope that they crash out in the group stages and Spain goes through with Croatia. THere is a decent possibility for this as well. Italy will have to rely on the goals of Di Natale, who had an amazing season tbh, he carried that Udinese team. but the 2nd option is balottelli...this pic should say enough:

Oh and lets not forget about the irish...oh the Irish are finally there. Unfortunately for them in this group. I hope they put up a fight and grab 1 point from the italians and sing the song of their people.

1.Spain
2. Croatia
3. Italy
4. Ireland
D
Most of the ppl when seeing the English squad:

With the biggest troll on the euros..."Troll" Hodgson ladies and gents.

He basically invited his buddies from liverpool...yes liverpool. There are 6-7 players form the club that finished 8th this season. Problem?
And when Cahill got injured he neglected Mika Richards form the champions MAn City and called up Martin Kelly who wasn't even a regular starter in liverpool...

He also invited Ox Chamberlain (i hope he will have a good euro tbh, really like the guy), but when Roy was asked about his decision, he told the journalists that he saw Ox play against Milan, where he did really well against pirlo and ambrosini....the only problem is that Pirlo plays for Juve and Ambrosini was injured ♦ Gotta love this guy.
France...

They actually have a really decent squad with quite some fire power- Benzema, Giroud and the magnificent Ben Arfa- a guy to watch out for btw.
Sweden have another goalthreat alongside Ibrahimovic, Toivonen...really good player with awesome finishing skills. Will be interesting to see if they can cause a surprise and qualify from the group. Cause the English are pretty shit every major tournament, yet somehow they manage to get through their group...
We can't underestimante the Ukranian squad, they are the other hosts of this event, but I didn't see much of them lately and I doN't know if they got what it takes to compete with these teams.
So based on the trollness of the English team, I think that they should go till the quarter finals at least
1.France
2.England
3.Sweden
4. Ukraine
it will be a fun event tho, can't wait to watch all the games and bet on them as well. Will post my bets here so we can laugh at them when the exact opposite result comes along ♦
For now. RUssia and France to win their group.
Polish and Russian victory for today.
I'll be supporting Germany(like always), for the Croats to do well. But wouldn't mind if the Oranje would grab this one...or England(chelsea did it...so why not ♦ )
Ps. I stole these gifs shamelessly from this blog:
http://lifewithfacecards.tumblr.com/
really awesome check it out.
godspeed