Euro 2008 Hero Shirts...

With the squads having been announced now and the squad numbers set in stone it's time for you to nail your colours to the mast and get out and get your Euro 2008 team shirts.

Kitbag Ltd and SubsideSports.com are two of the top online retailers and both are now selling extensive ranges of teamwear for whatever country you'll be supporting. Whether you're after the official team shirt with your favourite players name on the back, retro shirts, t-shirts, silly hats, caps and even football boot slippers there's something there for everyone.

Check out the SubsideSports.com special Euro 2008 website. It's a well designed piece of web-work and well worth a visit. Also don't forget the great FREE shirt offer being run by bookmakers PartyBets, where you can get a £40 voucher for a shirt from any team competing at Euro 2008 to use at Subside by opening an account and placing a £40 bet on the outright winner of the tournament.

Yahoo / Eurosport Fantasy Football..

Another day and yet ANOTHER Fantasy Football competition for you to get involved in.
Yahoo and Eurosport have teamed up to bring you a free to enter competition, which offers exciting prizes that I seem to be having trouble locating through their site. If you already have a Yahoo account then you just need to log-in at the competition homepage to register.

The Yahoo/Eurosport competition gives you £200m to spend on a squad of at least 14 players and more should you want it. With players like Ronaldo going to set you back about £35m of your budget you have to spend wisely to allow yourself money for your substitutes, which will come in handy as the tournament progresses.

Point scoring is extensive in this competition, with defenders being awarded points for intercepted passes(1pt), blocked shots(2pts) and last-man tackles(2pts) to name just a few of the options. Attackers also receive points for things like winning a foul(1pt), successful crosses(1pt) and set piece goals(3pts). It's well worth studying the scoring methods for this one as there are so many ways to get the points on the board. Choosing your captain is also vitally important. Captain's points are doubled and he can be changed at any time... act wisely!

As with every competition I've found so far there is a Yodeller's Super League set-up for you to join. Just go to the 'Join League' section and scroll down and you should find us near the bottom of the alphabetically organised list. See you there.

Click here to join the Yahoo/Eurosport Fantasy Football competition

Euro 2008 Predictor...

The boys at top footie site The Onion Bag have had their brains in overdrive to come up with a novel, or should that be navel, way of helping you predict the winner of Euro 2008.

Get yourself over to The Onion Bag website and let the lovely Mavie help you work out who will romp away with their respective gropes, I mean groups, stroll through the quarters, reach a semi and frolic in the final to take away the trophy. It's worth a click...trust me

Click here for Mavie's Euro 2008 predictor

Euro 2008- The Chosen Ones...

The deadline has passed for the sixteen countries getting set for Euro 2008 to submit their final squads. Each coach has made some tough decisions and the disappointed players weep into their pillows all over Europe. The 23 man squad for the competing countries are as follows...

Austria (Coach: Josef Hickersberger)
1 Alex Manninger, 2 Joachim Standfest, 3 Martin Stranzl, 4 Emanuel Pogatetz, 5 Christian Fuchs, 6 René Aufhauser, 7 Ivica Vastic, 8 Christoph Leitgeb, 9 Roland Linz, 10 Andreas Ivanschitz, 11 Ümit Korkmaz, 12 Ronald Gercaliu, 13 Markus Katzer, 14 György Garics, 15 Sebastian Prödl, 16 Jürgen Patocka, 17 Martin Hiden, 18 Roman Kienast, 19 Jürgen Säumel, 20 Martin Harnik, 21 Jürgen Macho, 22 Erwin Hoffer, 23 Ramazan Özcan

Croatia (Coach: Slaven Bilić)
1 Stipe Pletikosa, 2 Dario Šimić, 3 Josip Šimunić, 4 Robert Kovač, 5 Vedran Ćorluka, 6 Hrvoje Vejić, 7 Ivan Rakitić, 8 Ognjen Vukojević, 9 Nikola Kalinić, 10 Niko Kovač, 11 Darijo Srna, 12 Mario Galinović13 Nikola Pokrivač, 14 Luka Modrić, 15 Dario Knežević, 16 Jerko Leko, 17 Ivan Klasnić, 18 Ivica Olić, 19 Niko Kranjčar, 20 Igor Budan, 21 Mladen Petrić 22 Danijel Pranjić, 23 Vedran Runje

Czech Republic (Coach: Karel Brückner)
1 Petr Čech, 2 Zdeněk Grygera, 3 Jan Polák, 4 Tomáš Galásek, 5 Radoslav Kováč, 6 Marek Jankulovski, 7 Libor Sionko, 8 Martin Fenin, 9 Jan Koller, 10 Václav Svěrkoš, 11 Stanislav Vlček, 12 Zdeněk Pospěch, 13 Michal Kadlec, 14 David Jarolím, 15 Milan Baroš, 16 Jaromír Blažek, 17 Marek Matějovský, 18 Tomáš Sivok, 19 Rudolf Skácel, 20 Jaroslav Plašil 21 Tomáš Ujfaluši, 22 David Rozehnal, 23 Daniel Zítka

France (Coach: Raymond Domenech)
1 Steve Mandanda, 2 Jean-Alain Boumsong, 3 Eric Abidal, 4 Patrick Vieira, 5 William Gallas, 6 Claude Makelele, 7 Florent Malouda, 8 Nicolas Anelka, 9 Karim Benzema, 10 Sidney Govou, 11 Samir Nasri, 12 Thierry Henry, 13 Patrice Evra, 14 François Clerc, 15 Lilian Thuram, 16 Sébastien Frey, 17 Sébastien Squillaci, 18 Bafétimbi Gomis, 19 Willy Sagnol, 20 Jérémy Toulalan, 21 Lassana Diarra, 22 Franck Ribéry, 23 Grégory Coupet

Germany (Coach: Joachim Löw)
1 Jens Lehmann, 2 Marcell Jansen, 3 Arne Friedrich, 4 Clemens Fritz, 5 Heiko Westermann, 6 Simon Rolfes, 7 Bastian Schweinsteiger, 8 Torsten Frings, 9 Mario Gómez, 10 Oliver Neuville, 11 Miroslav Klose, 12 Robert Enke, 13 Michael Ballack, 14 Piotr Trochowski 15 Thomas Hitzlsperger, 16 Philipp Lahm, 17 Per Mertesacker, 18 Tim Borowski 19 David Odonkor, 20 Lukas Podolski, 21 Christoph Metzelder, 22 Kevin Kuranyi, 23 René Adler

Greece (Coach: Otto Rehhagel)
1 Antonios Nikopolidis, 2 Giourkas Seitaridis, 3 Christos Patsatzoglou, 4 Nikolaos Spyropoulos, 5 Traianos Dellas, 6 Angelos Basinas, 7 Georgios Samaras, 8 Stylianos Giannakopoulos 9 Angelos Charisteas, 10 Georgios Karagounis, 11 Loukas Vintra, 12 Konstantinos Chalkias, 13 Alexandros Tzorvas, 14 Dimitrios Salpingidis, 15 Vassilios Torosidis, 16 Sotirios Kyrgiakos, 17 Theofanis Gekas, 18 Ioannis Goumas, 19 Paraskevas Antzas, 20 Ioannis Amanatidis 21 Konstantinos Katsouranis, 22 Alexandros Tziolis, 23 Nikolaos Liberopoulos

Italy (Coach: Roberto Donadoni)
1 Gianluigi Buffon, 2 Christian Panucci, 3 Fabio Grosso, 4 Giorgio Chiellini, 5 Fabio Cannavaro, 6 Andrea Barzagli, 7 Alessandro Del Piero, 8 Gennaro Gattuso, 9 Luca Toni, 10 Daniele De Rossi, 11 Antonio Di Natale, 12 Marco Borriello, 13 Massimo Ambrosini, 14 Marco Amelia, 15 Fabio Quagliarella, 16 Mauro Camoranesi, 17 Morgan De Sanctis, 18 Antonio Cassano, 19 Gianluca Zambrotta, 20 Simone Perrotta, 21 Andrea Pirlo, 22 Alberto Aquilani, 23 Marco Materazzi

Holland (Coach: Marco van Basten)
1 Edwin van der Sar, 2 André Ooijer, 3 John Heitinga, 4 Joris Mathijsen, 5 Giovanni van Bronckhorst, 6 Demy de Zeeuw, 7 Robin van Persie, 8 Orlando Engelaar, 9 Ruud van Nistelrooy, 10 Wesley Sneijder, 11 Arjen Robben, 12 Mario Melchiot, 13 Henk Timmer, 14 Wilfred Bouma, 15 Tim de Cler, 16 Maarten Stekelenburg, 17 Nigel de Jong, 18 Dirk Kuyt, 19 Klaas Jan Huntelaar, 20 Ibrahim Afellay, 21 Ryan Babel, 22 Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink, 23 Rafael van der Vaart

Poland (Coach: Leo Beenhakker)
1 Artur Boruc, 2 Mariusz Jop, 3 Jakub Wawrzyniak, 4 Pawel Golański, 5 Dariusz Dudka, 6 Jacek Bąk, 7 Euzebiusz Smolarek8 Jacek Krzynówek, 9 Maciej Żurawski, 10 Łukasz Garguła, 11 Marek Saganowski, 12 Tomasz Kuszczak, 13 Marcin Wasilewski, 14 Michał Żewłakow, 15 Michał Pazdan, 16 Jakub Błaszczykowski, 17 Wojciech Łobodziński, 18 Mariusz Lewandowski, 19 Rafał Murawski, 20 Roger Guerreiro, 21 Tomasz Zahorski, 22 Łukasz Fabiański, 23 Adam Kokoszka

Portugal (Coach: Luiz Felipe Scolari)
1 Ricardo, 2 Paulo Ferreira, 3 Bruno Alves, 4 Bosingwa, 5 Fernando Meira, 6 Raul Meireles, 7 Cristiano Ronaldo, 8 Petit, 9 Hugo Almeida, 10 João Moutinho, 11 Simão, 12 Quim, 13 Miguel, 14 Jorge Ribeiro, 15 Pepe, 16 Ricardo Carvalho, 17 Ricardo Quaresma, 18 Miguel Veloso, 19 Nani, 20 Deco, 21 Nuno Gomes, 22 Rui Patrício, 23 Hélder Postiga

Romania (Coach: Victor Piţurcă)
1 Bogdan Lobonţ, 2 Cosmin Contra, 3 Răzvan Raţ, 4 Gabriel Tamaş, 5 Cristian Chivu, 6 Mirel Rădoi, 7 Florentin Petre, 8 Paul Codrea, 9 Ciprian Marica, 10 Adrian Mutu 11 Răzvan Cociş, 12 Marius Cornel Popa, 13 Cristian Sapunaru, 14 Sorin Ghionea, 15 Dorin Goian, 16 Bănel Nicoliţă, 17 Cosmin Moti, 18 Marius Niculae, 19 Adrian Cristea, 20 Nicolae Dică, 21 Daniel Niculae, 22 Ştefan Radu, 23 Eduard Stăncioiu

Russia (Coach: Guus Hiddink)
1 Igor Akinfeev, 2 Vasili Berezutski, 3 Renat Yanbaev, 4 Sergei Ignashevich, 5 Aleksei Berezutski, 6 Roman Adamov, 7 Dmitri Torbinskiy, 8 Denis Kolodin, 9 Ivan Saenko, 10 Andrei Arshavin, 11 Sergei Semak, 12 Vladimir Gabulov, 13 Pavel Pogrebnyak, 14 Roman Shirokov, 15 Diniyar Bilyaletdinov, 16 Vyacheslav Malafeev, 17 Konstantin Zyrianov, 18 Yuri Zhirkov, 19 Roman Pavlyuchenko, 20 Igor Semshov, 21 Dmitri Sychev, 22 Aleksandr Anyukov, 23 Vladimir Bystrov

Spain (Coach: Luis Aragonés)
1 Iker Casillas, 2 Raúl Albiol, 3 Fernando Navarro, 4 Carlos Marchena, 5 Carles Puyol, 6 Andrés Iniesta, 7 David Villa, 8 Xavi Hernández, 9 Fernando Torres, 10 Cesc Fábregas, 11 Joan Capdevila, 12 Santi Cazorla, 13 Andrés Palop, 14 Xabi Alonso, 15 Sergio Ramos, 16 Sergio García, 17 Daniel Güiza, 18 Álvaro Arbeloa, 19 Marcos Senna, 20 Juanito Gutiérrez, 21 David Silva, 22 Rubén De La Red, 23 Pepe Reina

Sweden (Coach: Lars Lagerbäck)
1 Andreas Isaksson, 2 Mikael Nilsson, 3 Olof Mellberg, 4 Petter Hansson, 5 Fredrik Stoor, 6 Tobias Linderoth, 7 Niclas Alexandersson, 8 Anders Svensson, 9 Fredrik Ljungberg, 10 Zlatan Ibrahimović, 11 Johan Elmander, 12 Rami Shaaban, 13 Johan Wiland, 14 Daniel Majstorovic, 15 Andreas Granqvist, 16 Kim Källström, 17 Henrik Larsson, 18 Sebastian Larsson, 19 Daniel Andersson, 20 Marcus Allbäck, 21 Christian Wilhelmsson, 22 Markus Rosenberg, 23 Mikael Dorsin

Switzerland (Coach: Jakob Kuhn)
1 Diego Benaglio, 2 Johan Djourou, 3 Ludovic Magnin, 4 Philippe Senderos, 5 Stephan Lichtsteiner, 6 Benjamin Huggel, 7 Ricardo Cabanas, 8 Gökhan Inler, 9 Alexander Frei, 10 Hakan Yakin, 11 Marco Streller, 12 Eren Derdiyok, 13 Stéphane Grichting, 14 Daniel Gygax, 15 Gelson Fernandes, 16 Tranquillo Barnetta, 17 Christoph Spycher, 18 Pascal Zuberbühler, 19 Valon Behrami, 20 Patrick Müller, 21 Eldin Jakupovic, 22 Johan Vonlanthen, 23 Philipp Degen

Turkey (Coach: Fatih Terim)
1 Rüştü Reçber, 2 Servet Çetin, 3 Hakan Balta, 4 Gökhan Zan, 5 Emre Belözoğlu, 6 Mehmet Topal, 7 Mehmet Aurélio, 8 Nihat Kahveci, 9 Semih Şentürk, 10 Gökdeniz Karadeniz, 11 Tümer Metin, 12 Tolga Zengin, 13 Emre Güngör, 14 Arda Turan, 15 Emre Aşık, 16 Uğur Boral, 17 Tuncay Şanlı, 18 Kazım Kazım, 19 Ayhan Akman, 20 Sabri Sarıoğlu, 21 Mevlüt Erdinç, 22 Hamit Altıntop, 23 Volkan Demirel

UEFA.com Fantasy Football, Matchday 2...

Matchday 2 of the UEFA.com Fantasy Football is over and there was some great scoring yet again by the YOYWYW managers.

Ian King's Celtic FC remain at the top of the table and sit in 167th position for the overall competition which is a tremendous feat. Jagastonia, managed by ptfc.net's very own William Jarvis managed to make up a small bit of ground on the league leader and sits in 423rd position overall. One big final phase is needed by both these managers if they are to have any chance of winning the Euro 2008 tickets. Good Luck guys.

Another interesting stat is that the YOYWYW Super League sits in 23rd place overall in the League of Leagues, which has 3,426 leagues on the go, not bad at all lads.

Here is how the table stands after Matchday 2, heading into the final Matchday.

1	Celtic FC	Ian King	42	100
2	Jagastonia	William Jarvis	47	93
3	Yodellers XI	P Black	46	88
4	Euro warriors	Donald Larmour	23	73
5	DEF/MID/ATT - R/L/C	Michael Anderson	31	63
6	Black Mapleleafs	t saadiq kamali	42	60
7	banknock thistle	chris paterson	23	55
7	Dynamo Thistle	Adam Reid	12	55
9	FT FC	Greig Forbes	18	51
10	Maryhill Magyars	Steven Campbell	19	49
11	LEAPED LIKE A SALMON	Walter Ferguson	13	47
12	Metatarsal XI	Vinny Ferguson	24	44
13	Scotland Thistle	Scott Grant	25	43
14	Firhill Shed	stuart goldie	6	43
15	the dopes	mark rustigini	19	43
16	LiverPaul73	Paul Lucey	41	41
17	Wuck Fits XI	tony cassidy	40	40
18	Lauras Star	Allan Macmillan	13	37
19	Real Pish	Graham Macaulay	35	35
20	Canucks	Calum Stewart	7	33
21	DerryRhumba	Jon Glassey	7	29
22	Red Yellow Army	Nick Mathers	3	29
23	Fluid_Football	Daniel Smart	24	24
23	Real Portknockie	Willie Milne	9	24
25	OB1 Kenobi0	Ken Rawlinson	23	23
25	Hulkamania Thistle	Paul Mathieson	23	23
27	Guns n Thistle	Kenneth Hughes	21	21
27	Jagtastic	Alan McMillan	21	21
29	TheBloodBeastTerror	Kendo Nagazaki	19	19
29	The Fortunate Sons	Michael Law	19	19
31	Inter Yermaw	dave Mackay	17	17
32	Vanderreal	Lewis Dalgarno	11	11
33	StreetTuneFC	Zarul Hafis	10	10
33	Nordo´s Jags	Iain Norris	10	10
35	Portucal	callum mcconnell	8	8
36	Spam Valley Jags	Frazer McLachlan	7	7
36	baBOON!	Stu McDougall	7	7
38	FC Jaggy Thistle	Alan Abraham	6	6

Matchday 3 gets started tonight when Russia take on Serbia and the transfer deadline is 6pm. If you want to make some substitutions in time for thelast phase then now is the time to do it, don't forget or you'll be stuck with the players you had for Matchday 2.

There's still plenty of time to get your team entered for the main event. Register at uefa.com, go to the league section and use the code 52-10 to enter your team into the YOYWYW Super League.

Hiddink names Russian Tsars...

Gus Hiddink has shown he is concentrating on the job in hand and not getting to caught up in the speculation that he is Chelsea bound by naming the 23 players who will make up Russia's squad who head to Switzerland.

Having previously announced a 25 man preliminary squad The Goose has chosen to leave at Spartak Moscow's Aleksandr Pavlenko and Krylya Sovetov Samara's Oleg Ivanov. The midfielders will obviously be gutted at missing out but Hiddink, who had always looked like getting rid of players from the midfield area of the preliminary squad has made his mind up, and we all know what that means, that is that!

Interestingly, only one player plays outside Russia, Nürnberg's Ivan Saenko.

Here are the 23 Russian players who will head to Euro 2008...

Goalkeepers
Igor Akinfeev CSKA Moscow
Vladimir Gabulov Amkar Perm
Vyacheslav Malafeev Zenit St. Petersburg

Defenders
Aleksandr Anyukov Zenit St. Petersburg
Aleksei Berezutski CSKA Moscow
Vasili Berezutski CSKA Moscow
Sergei Ignashevich CSKA Moscow
Denis Kolodin Dinamo Moscow
Roman Shirokov Zenit St. Petersburg
Renat Yanbaev Lokomotiv Moscow

Midfielders
Diniyar Bilyaletdinov Lokomotiv Moscow
Dmitri Torbinskiy Lokomotiv Moscow
Vladimir Bystrov Spartak Moscow
Yuri Zhirkov CSKA Moscow
Konstantin Zyrianov Zenit St. Petersburg
Igor Semshov Dinamo Moscow
Sergei Semak Rubin Kazan

Forwards
Roman Adamov FC Moscow
Roman Pavlyuchenko Spartak Moskcow
Dmitri Sychev Lokomotiv Moscow
Pavel Pogrebnyak Zenit St. Petersburg
Andrei Arshavin Zenit St. Petersburg
Ivan Saenko Nürnberg

After announcing the two players who would miss out Hiddink said "I want to point out that we have no complaints about Pavlenko and Ivanov. They worked well in training and left a good impression. We want them to stay with us until the end of the EURO."

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!