Portsmouth News 24/7
Writer: pompeyrug 
Date:Saturday June 21 2008
Time: 1:13PM
UK time is: 07:01:48
Choose your club
Other Sites
Network Navigation
Vital Partners
'If It's Football, It's Vital'
Pompey at Euro 2008 update #4
Quarter finals time at Euro 2008 meant that Pompey's last representative was in action, but could he inspire Croatia to the last 4...
Having been rested for the final group game Niko Kranjcar returned for Croatia's quarter final against Turkey on Friday and after Ivica Olic somehow managed to hit the bar Kranjcar missed the follow up with his header, which in fairness was far from straightforward.
The game was pretty poor to be honest, but Croatia looked the team most likely to win it in 90 minutes, sadly Kranjcar - who was admittedly not that prominent in the game - came off before the end due to a tactical move.
0-0 at full time, then 0-0 until the dying minutes of injury time then Croatia struck, Kranjcar would be back to fight another day surely, but no Turkey and their 'never say die attitude' amazingly saw them equalise with the last kick of the game to send it to penalties. At this point you always knew, well I did anyway, that there would be only one winner - Turkey. And so it proved as the Croats put 2 penalties wide and had a 3rd saved.
So Croatia, my tip to win Euro 2008, are no more - there goes my payout! Kranjcar can now go on a break before reporting for pre-season training and a Pompey interest in Euro 2008 is over, at least in terms of current Pompey players, maybe there could still be some future players on display, but I would doubt it...
I cannot wrap up the Croatia talk without a note on Luka Modric though - Spurs look like they have signed one hell of a player!
Surely we cannot have another 'Greece' on our hands with Turkey? Granted they have never given up but they have rarely gone out looking to win games so far. In all honesty I do not want Turkey or Germany to win the tournament, but as they meet in the semi final from a footballing point of view Germany to this point would deserve it more.
I was 'Croatian' but I think I will now become 'Dutch' or 'Russia' as I have this feeling that the winner of that game tonight could well go all the way, and I also have this other feeling that it may well be a case of 'you sneaky Russians'...
PLAY UP POMPEY!
Vital F1 Prediction League - Join now for Monaco
Your Comments
I have little time for anything Turkish or German. Blame my interest in history for that. Croatia should have won that game in normal time. So we cheer on the rest to win now, don't care who as long as it's not the axis teams.
storagematt
I don't think we'll beat Holland, and I actually want them to win the tournament. Anyone but Germany would be ok to me.
RussianHammer
holland r out
stfc ballboy
Thats it, no more Pompey interest left. Oh well. Role on the World Cup
sneakay
Have Your Say
Recent Articles
On this day in history...22nd May (Wednesday May 22 2013)
Reaping the benefits of 1st team football (Tuesday May 21 2013)
On this day in history...21st May (Tuesday May 21 2013)
Scunny winger becomes latest Pompey signing (Monday May 20 2013)
Winger signing imminent? (Monday May 20 2013)
On this day in history...20th May (Monday May 20 2013)
On this day in history...19th May (Sunday May 19 2013)
Pompey predictions league - winners! (Saturday May 18 2013)
On this day in history...18th May (Saturday May 18 2013)
Sullivan brought in to replace Eastwood (Friday May 17 2013)
Archived Articles
Vital Members League (view all)
| 1. | pompeyrug | 64 |
| 2. | eastneydave | 48 |
| 3. | storagematt | 33 |
| 4. | mslorna48 | 25 |
| 5. | Jimsmithswig | 25 |
| 6. | blueballoo2000 | 17 |
| 7. | nagoyablue | 14 |
| 8. | Pompeytim | 14 |
| 9. | PompeyJake | 11 |
| 10. | PFCblue | 10 |
League Results (view all)
| Latest Results | ||||
| Shrewsbury | 3 | - | 2 | Portsmouth |
| Portsmouth | 3 | - | 0 | Sheff Utd |
| Brentford | 3 | - | 2 | Portsmouth |
| Portsmouth | 0 | - | 0 | Stevenage |
| Portsmouth | 1 | - | 0 | Tranmere |
| Preston | 1 | - | 1 | Portsmouth |
League Table (view table)
| Team | P | W | D | L | GD | Pts |
| 18. Stevenage | 46 | 15 | 9 | 22 | -17 | 54 |
| 19. Oldham | 46 | 14 | 9 | 23 | -13 | 51 |
| 20. Colchester | 46 | 14 | 9 | 23 | -21 | 51 |
| 21. Scunthorpe | 46 | 13 | 9 | 24 | -24 | 48 |
| 22. Bury | 46 | 9 | 14 | 23 | -28 | 41 |
| 23. Hartlepool | 46 | 9 | 14 | 23 | -28 | 41 |
| 24. Portsmouth | 46 | 10 | 12 | 24 | -18 | 32 |
Breaking League News
| Burton Boss On Sky Blues Target
» Coventry : 22/05/2013 22:17:00
|
| Keeper wants to remain number one
» Crewe : 22/05/2013 16:35:00
|
| Gradi rules out return
» Crewe : 22/05/2013 16:18:00
|
| Davis emerging as Wolves favourite
» Crewe : 22/05/2013 15:08:00
|
| SUFC Would McCall be a good or bad appointment?
» Sheff Utd : 22/05/2013 14:54:00
|
| Dunne Ready For 'Strongest' League One
» Colchester : 22/05/2013 14:19:00
|
| Pitman: No-one expected us to go up that day
» Bournemouth : 22/05/2013 08:02:00
|
Current Site Poll (view all polls)
|
|
1 © - All content copyright Vital Network Ltd, not to be reproduced without explicit permission Copyright Issues
Cookie Policy
At Vital Football, we along with most other modern websites use small files called 'cookies' to create the most secure, effective and functional website possible for our users. Without these files our business model, based on advertising, breaks down and we would be unable to continue to provide the services that you are here to utilise. By continuing to use this website after seeing this message, you consent to our use of cookies on this device unless you have disabled them. For full details please read our Cookie Policy which can be found here. However, if you would like to disable cookies on this device, please view our Cookie Policy which contains an opt-out tool for disabling advertising cookies. Please also visit our information pages on 'How to manage cookies' if you would also like to block all other types of cookies. Please be aware that parts of this site will not function correctly if you disable cookies.