Euro 2008 FREE Shirt Offer...

As I said yesterday the bookies are starting the clamour to have your bets for Euro 2008 placed with them and PartyBets have come up with what I believe will undoubtedly be THE BEST OFFER around. If you fancy nailing your colours to the mast for this tournament then before you head out and spend your hard-earned on that new shirt take a look at this. Not only could you win hundreds of pounds but even if your bet goes down you've got the shirt to show for it. You could say it's a 'Don't lose the shirt off your back' special from one of the most competitively-priced bookies around.

Any customer who opens a new account with PartyBets up until 6th June and places a £40 bet on the outright winner of Euro 2008 will receive a voucher for a brand, spanking new FREE replica shirt of the team of your choice from the tournament. It really is as simple as that. Once your bet is placed, PartyBets will send you a code within 48 hours, you head along to the Subside Sports website, choose the shirt you want, enter the code and voila..it's yours, FREE GRATIS!



This kind of free shirt offer has been done before by bookies like Gamebookers and Canbet, and proved to be massive. I've no doubt this one will be the same and if you don't already have a PartyBets account then now is the time to get one.

Click here to head to PartyBets, click the Euro 2008 banner at the top of the right hand menu, open your account and claim your free shirt...EASY!

Who will be Rome alone?

Italian coach Roberto Donadoni has named a preliminary 24 man pool leaving one poor sod with the embarrassment of being the player to be miss out of the upcoming big one when he announces his final 23 man sqaud.

Donadoni, who has just signed a new contract with the Italian FA surprised a lot of people with his inclusion of Real Madrid striker Antonio Cassano, who has had a decent season while on at Sampdoria. Donadoni also named veteran Alessandro Del Piero, who finished the season as Serie A's top scorer.

AC Milan's veteran forward Filippo Inzaghi, Massimo Oddo and Vincenzo Iaquinta were all omitted from the Italian squad due to injuries. The pool of 24 chosen by Donadoni are...

Goalkeepers
Marco Amelia Livorno
Gianluigi Buffon Juventus
Morgan De Sanctis Sevilla

Defenders
Andrea Barzagli Palermo
Fabio Cannavaro Real Madrid
Giorgio Chiellini Juventus
Fabio Grosso Lyon
Marco Materazzi Intern Milan
Christian Panucci Roma
Gianluca Zambrotta Barcelona

Midfielders
Massimo Ambrosini AC Milan
Alberto Aquilani Roma
Mauro Camoranesi Juventus
Daniele De Rossi Roma
Gennaro Gattuso AC Milan
Riccardo Montolivo Fiorentina
Simone Perrotta Roma
Andrea Pirlo AC Milan

Forwards
Marco Borriello Genoa
Antonio Cassano Sampdoria
Alessandro Del Piero Juventus
Antonio Di Natale Udinese
Fabio Quagliarella Udinese Calcio
Luca Toni Bayern Münich

Talking about his new contract, Donadoni said "I'm delighted with the new contract because I consider it a show of faith from the federation. I'll be the first to step down if we don't get good results."

International Friendlies...

The UEFA.com Fantasy Football competition gets into full swing this midweek when the first phase of international friendlies before Euro 2008 commences get underway. To be in with a chance of winning tickets to the big tournament now is the time to get your entries in and pick up points right from the start.

Here is a list of this midweek's friendlies, with the Euro 2008 finalists in bold and links to the news pages of the Euro 2008 website for all the latest team news...

Belarus v Turkey
Romania v Russia
Denmark v Czech Republic
Austria v Holland
Poland v USA
Portugal v Greece
Sweden v Brazil
Switzerland v Germany
France v England
Scotland v Croatia
Spain v Italy

Looking at these fixtures and with ten of the sixteen Euro 2008 finalists facing each other it could pay to pick your line-up from the likes of Turkey and Czech Republic who will be facing sides who aren't planning for the summer and may well be building towards the upcoming World Cup qualifiers. The other side who should come out on top, and where I will be finding the backbone of my team is from Holland, who face Euro hosts and expected, quite rightly so, whipping boys of the tournament.

Get picking your team and don't forget to get them entered into the YOYWTW Super League by using the code 52-10...GOOD LUCK!