現在是11點10分。。。剛起床。。。看Euro-England VS Portugal的比賽﹐看到凌晨5點半。也不知道為什麼﹐一起床﹐就有bloggin的衝動。

情牽England的我﹐怎能不看呢﹖

而結果﹖當然讓我有些失望。

雙方在90分鐘的比賽裡以1比1打合。(在80多分鐘左右﹐England明明又進球﹐誰知裁判卻說不算﹗沒辦法。。。裁判最大lohs。。。)

在加時賽的第20多分鐘﹐Portugal進球了﹗天啊﹗我整個人呆掉了。。。什麼跟什麼啊。。。那時的我﹐心中覺得England大勢以去﹐卻始終希望奇跡出現。。。

球是圓的。奇跡果然發生了。

加時第25分鐘左右﹐England的Lampard用頭頂進了一粒神聖的球。我在沙發上狂叫﹗(結果把媽媽吵醒了。。。而我爸呢﹖如果吵醒他﹐我必定死路一條。幸好﹐那時的他﹐正在與我一同觀看球賽。。。哈哈。。。)

2比2。加時賽也打合了。只好用點球來決定勝負。

第一粒球﹐由Beckham操刀。結果﹖他MISS了。(在他踢那粒球之前﹐我就有預感說他可能踢不進﹐因為在我印象中﹐他好像常常踢不進點球。可能是captain的壓力太大﹐可能是不擅長踢點球﹐總之﹐他踢沖天炮時﹐我沒有太大的驚訝﹐只是覺得﹐What a way to start the first ball...)

之後﹐大家都輕而易舉地把球踢進龍門。我心想﹐如果Portugal的球員都順利把球踢進去﹐Beckham就慘了﹗﹗﹗哈哈﹐結果﹐一個長的有點"suay"的Portugal球員﹐把球踢歪了﹗爽死了﹗

點球也平手了。

現在﹐只要有人踢進或踢不進球﹐比賽就有結果了。

結果﹐England的球被守門員擋住了。而Portugal也把關鍵性的一粒球﹐踢進去了。Portugal贏了。England輸了。

相當刺激的一場比賽。不到最後﹐真的不知鹿死誰手。

在新加坡﹐支持England的人應該很多很多。So,那一個凌晨﹐和我一同失望的人﹐也很多很多吧。。。其實﹐也沒有去覺得England會得到本賽冠軍﹐心態上﹐只希望他們能過越多關越好。。。

猜我夢到了什麼﹖哈哈。。。我夢到了Beckham當守門員。。。那時是Portugal的球員要踢十二碼罰球。Beckham故意不守龍門﹐讓Portugal的球員“自由活動”。但是﹐Portugal的球員﹐既然在沒有守門員的情況下﹐把球踢歪了﹗哈哈。。。

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Thursday, June 24, 2004


We're devastated: Lampard


England midfielder Frank Lampard said Sven Goran Eriksson's players were 'devastated' after Portugal ended their Euro 2004 dreams with a dramatic 6-5 penalty shootout victory in a pulsating quarter-final.
Lampard said it would take 'a long time' for the players to get over the setback after the host nation took full advantage of shootout misses by David Beckham and Darius Vassell.


Portugal keeper Alexandre Ricardo stepped up to score the decisive kick, and Chelsea midfielder Lampard admitted: 'The dressing room is devastated. Everyone is so quiet. To go out on penalties is the biggest kick in the teeth you can have in football.

'We have worked very hard to get here, and we felt we could go all the way in this tournament.

'We don't want to go on holiday now. We wanted to stay here for the rest of the tournament - and now we are not here.'

Lampard was convinced that Sol Campbell's seemingly legitimate 90th minute goal, ruled out by the referee, should have stood.

Chelsea defender John Terry was adjudged to have fouled Ricardo as Campbell nodded the ball home, but Lampard said: 'I could see that John had hardly touched their keeper, and I think the linesman was running back to the halfway line to give the goal.

'But the referee had decided not to give it when there was nothing wrong. That makes it even worse for all of the lads.'

Striker Michael Owen, who gave England an early lead, added: 'It's a big disappointment - and it always seems to happen to us.

'Tournaments come along every two years, so you can't expect to win everything. But going out on penalties again is a bitter blow, although they put theirs away really well.'

The striker also said he could see nothing wrong with Campbell's 'goal', and drew comparisons with the 1998 World Cup, when the same player had what looked like a late winner controversially ruled out against Argentina.

'It was the same then - he scored a perfectly good goal,' Owen said. 'I should have scored with a header before, to be honest, but I got a nudge and the ball clipped off my shoulder. I couldn't see anything wrong with the goal.'

During the shootout, several players trod down what seemed to be a disintegrating penalty spot, and Owen explained: 'The pitch is sand-based, and we trained there yesterday.

'We took penalties, and the way a lot of people take penalties puts a lot of pressure on the standing foot. It gave way at the other end yesterday in the practice.'

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