Countdown with Keith Olbermann: Primary Elections in Review Video (AMAZING)

I was trying to find a video that would summarize the primaries, showing the highlights of what happened during the five months. Yesterday I was watching COUNTDOWN and was amazed on how they made a video of just what I was thinking. The way they combined events was clever and funny in sometimes. Watch……

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Euro 2008: Greece 0-2 Sweden (Match Report and Video)

This game was unlikely to be a thriller, with the current holders Greece going against Sweden. Both teams tactics are usually to defend and then counter attack, so there was going to be a clash. Sweden were wearing yellow shirts and socks with blue shorts, and Greece were wearing all white.

Within the first ten minutes, nothing really seemed to happen, there was open play and Sweden created a couple of runs down the wings, and at around ten minutes Greece started to play a bit of football as well, forcing Man City and Sweden goal keeper Isaksson in to some saves.

The game continued in this boring manner for the majority of the half, Sweden creating some good opportunities, but neither team really seemed very interested in the game, and usual hot shot Henrik Larsson didn’t seem to want to shoot.

Commentators and Greek and Swedish fans alike were clearing incensed when the Greek defenders started playing it around, keeping it within three players and boring everyone to within an inch of their lives after playing the ball to one another for minutes before lumping the ball up field for a Swedish throw. In fact, the most entertaining part of the first half was when Inter Milan striker Ibrohimavic was kicked right where it hurts.

It was a relief for everyone when the half time whistle blew and concluded what was easily the most boring half of football in Euro 2008 so far, and everyone was hoping the second half would be more exciting.

As the players came out for the second hand, it soon became apparent the manager’s half time discussions hadn’t been very inspiring, the players once again boring us to death until on the sixty seventh minute Ibrohimavic played a cute little one – two with Henrik Larsson before smashing the ball into the top corner.

Greece stepped up their game after this, but on the seventy third minute Hansson bundled the ball over the line following a catalogue of errors from both Freddy Ljungberg and the Greek players alike. After this it was effectively game over.

Overall, an appalling game, both teams failing to impress, especially current holders Greece, who can’t have had more than five shots in the whole game.

Final Score:
Greece 0 – 2 Sweden

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Euro 2008: Spain 4-1 Russia (Match Report and Video)

Spain went into this game expected to win. The majority of Britons asked said they thought the Spanish international side were the most likely to go all the way, but first they had to get through their first game against Russia.

For the first ten minutes or so, neither team really found their feet, and it was very hard to decide who would get the first goal, but around the fifteen minute mark, Russia started to play some good football and looked very threatening, although they failed to utilize this advantage and on the twenty minute mark, the Liverpool top goal scorer, Torres made a break down the left hand side, before attracting goal keeper and coolly passing the ball into Villa for a simple tap in.

The first half in general belong to Spain, although it wouldn’t be fair to say Russia didn’t have their chances, including hitting the post, hitting the crossbar and having a one on one opportunity canceled for offside.

The Spanish side then made Russia pay for this mistake. Russia played a short corner and way over hit the cross, then Spain made a counter attack extremely similar to the Netherlands’s, where the left back ran the length of the pitch, before the ball found it’s way through to David Villa, who scored his second of the game calmly passing the ball through the keepers legs.

A number of players looked extremely close to getting booked in the first half, with the referee seeming to disallow psychical contact altogether, giving a lot of free kicks, and it was unsurprising no one received a yellow card, although this didn’t ruin what was a very good game of football so far.

Coming out for the second half and it looked like the Russians might just find a way back into this game, putting the Spanish defense under a lot of pressure for around a quarter of an hour before the tables turned and on the seventieth minute David Villa got his hat trick after an excellent cross-pitch pass from substitute Cesc Fabregas, meaning all Villa had to do was slot the ball neatly home at the near post.

The Spaniards then carried on putting the Russians under pressure, until around the eightieth minute where Russian player Roman Pavlyuchenko headed the ball in to the Spanish net to make the score 3 – 1, but this didn’t mean the Spanish stopped. With yet another counter attack they surged forward, Villa holding the ball up and chipping to Igor Akinfeyev who blasted it to the keeper, who could only rebound the ball in to Cesc Fabregas’ path for a diving header.

The first game of Group D was a good one, with lots of action, and, at last, a decent amount of goals. The Spanish played well, and thoroughly deserved the win. They certainly look like a team with the quality to win this competition.

Final Score:
Spain 4 – 1 Russia

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