Customer Reviews
Comprehensive - but boring! - By: T.F., 23 Oct 2008 
Every two years a major international tournament comes along, so too comes a DVD/VHS review. Some are good, some bad. The best thing that can be said about this is that it is comprehensive: all matches are covered, including all the goals & penalty shoot-outs. On the face of it, this is as much as can be asked of an 'official' review DVD.
Yet there are problems, the most prominent being that the producers have somehow used footage from an outstanding tournament to produce what is really quite a drawn-out & tedious DVD. For a start it suffers from the twin blights of many recent football DVDs: sub-standard post-hoc commentary & a wearyingly large number of replays.
Peter Brackley provides the narration between matches, but a raft of inferior commentators are responsible for the matches themselves, many of which are drawn out over 5-10 minutes while showing probably only 3-4 clips of action, replayed several times each. We do not need endless repeats of action snippets from incomprehensible angles when watching a film, so why is it any more acceptable on a sports review?
Other factors conspire to make this a three-hour marathon best watchedin short segments: do we really need to see a montage of painted-face fans singing drunken songs before EVERY match? Do we need to see the team line-ups for EVERY match? Why not sacrifice these irrelevances for a little more real action, or better still, cut the whole thing down to a more palatable 90-120 minutes?
If this were a book, perhaps it would be an encyclopedia (reprinted four times) - useful for reference, but very few people read it for enjoyment.
The best Euro Championship yet - By: Mr. Jm Hanak, 03 Aug 2008 
The one thing you really want/expect from the European Championship is drama & this one provided itin bucket loads. Certain momentsin football can make you think that there is a spiritual script being writtenin order to generate the excitement of an international football tournament. Who could have expected some of the twists that we saw. Firstly, the form team of Euro 2004, The Czech Republic, falling at the hands of the Turks who came back 3 times from the eyes of defeat, each time taking longer to do it, before the Germans finally gave them a taste of their own medicine with a 90th minute winner. We were amazed by the flare of Hollandin the group stages, making mince meat of France & Italy, the world champions & runners up who would have to battle it out once again just to qualify to the next stage!. They say that every International campaign has its heroes & we saw a few, both current & emerging talents, such as Croatia's Luca Modric, the Russian Andrei Arshavin, & Fernando Torres of Spain, whose single goal gave the Spanish their first European titlein 44 years. After the brilliant Euro 2004, it was going to be a tough challenge to beat, but with great games, great goals & most importantly intense drama, Euro 2008 is a must buy.
