The official website of the UEFA EURO 2008(TM) tournament has more than doubled traffic levels and surpassed its own records set at UEFA EURO 2004(TM). The official website of UEFA EURO 2008(TM), euro2008.com, has registered record traffic, with over 1 billion page views since its launch in February 2008. In June alone, over 42 million visitors from over 200 countries logged-in to text, multimedia and video coverage of the EURO matches. Up to 4.3 million visitors logged-in on a single day of the tournament, and up to
half a million visitors per hour follow live coverage on the web.

These traffic numbers represent an increase of over 250% compared to
euro2004.com four years ago, even though the tournament is still in its final
stages, and the traffic numbers are still coming in.

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Euro 2008 to be broadcast in the USA on ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPND and ESPN Classic. Broadcast commentary will be available in English and Spanish.

The Euro 2008 will be broadcast in Canada on TSN, Sportsnet, RDS, RIS and OMNI.
Broadcast commentary will be available in English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Cantonese, Polish and Greek.

For complete schedules visit LiveSoccerTV.com’s Euro 2008 TV Schedule or follow each team link to see your countries televised schedule.

April 17 (Reuters) - The List of the 12 referees for the European Championship finals in Austria and Switzerland in June who attended a four-day workshop at their Euro 2008 base in the Swiss town of Regensdorf near Zurich are:

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REGENSDORF, Switzerland, April 17 (Reuters) - Referees at Euro 2008 will come down hard on players who use excessive force or show dissent if they follow instructions they were given on Thursday.

The 12 referees who will officiate at the June tournament in Austria and Switzerland were handed a six-point list of instructions at the end of a four-day workshop at their Euro 2008 base near Zurich.

The instructions, compiled by European soccer’s governing body UEFA, order referees to “act firmly (red card) against challenges involving excessive force…including the illegal use of arms and elbows.”

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VIENNA, March 31 (Reuters) - Euro 2008 organisers have asked countries to try to impose travel bans on hooligans to stop troublemakers reaching June’s tournament in Austria and Switzerland, Austria’s interior minister said on Monday.

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Romania sent a message to all those who consider them outsiders at EURO 2008 with a comprehensive 3-0 defeat of Russia in Bucharest, a result that left the visitors in understandably sombre mood after the nations’ first meeting since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Mourinho’s I’m on Setanta Sports - Episode 11

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In the last few years, the European Championships have provided better football than the World Cups. The last two editions of the European Championships, for example, have been high on substance and spectacle, even if Greece’s dour tactics triumphed four years ago. Indeed, that is the beauty of the tournament, for it promotes the continent’s disparate football philosophies on a stage uncluttered by whipping boys such as Togo and Saudi Arabia. That is not to say the World Cup’s global appeal comes at the price of good football; rather, that the European Championship’s sixteen team format ensures immensely competitive groups.

Taking a look the Euro2008 groups illustrates the point. Group D, which contains Greece, Spain, Sweden, and Russia, can be arguably described as “the group of life”. Spain and Sweden beat each other once in the qualifiers, while Russia came out of a group containing Croatia and England. Greece are the reigning European Champions and will definitely fancy a spot in the quarter-finals. All four teams, then, are on relatively equal ground. Certainly, Spain are the most talented side in the group, but their notorious knack to choke will comfort their opponents.

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Mourinho’s I’m on Setanta Sports. Episode 8.

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