The turtle informed me that, obviously, extraterrestrials are watching Euro 2008; they left some crop circles just east of Vienna's city limits. Well yes, they're not exactly circles, I guess they were heavily drunk when doing this:
I just want to warn the extraterrestrials (the seven of you still remaining, according to my little poll) that the farmers to whom belong this fields will be hugely annoyed and they might just call the police, so watch out, and could you please just enjoy the games with not making crop circles afterwards, yes?
As for the second round of group B the Czechs played definitely much better against Portugal (but lost) than they did against the Swiss (which game however they won). So really life is unfair. Portugal easily is through to the quarterfinals and will win the group: that much is sure already.
Switzerland against Turkey on the other hand was a close call, both teams didn't play world class football (both aren't quite in that league), and the weather too was against them (it did rain heavily and especially in the first half the ball hardly would roll on the lawn), but they both did play well, and the Swiss lost unlucky. (If you haven't seen it live you really should google for the goal of the Swiss scored against the current.) Now they're out, and in the las round Czechs and Turks will play in a head-on duel which one of them will march through the quarters.
If there will be a draw in this game then, and that much also is sure already, Turkey and the Czech Republic will decide who will go through to the quarters in a final penalty shoot-out due to a recent change of rules for tournaments: if two teams have scored the same points, have drawn in the direct duel, have the same goal difference and scored the same number of goals, then (in the last rounds of group-stages in tournaments) the decision won't be on the toss of a coin, as was the case previously, but a penalty shoot-out. Which, if it were to happen, would be a first in the history in group stage matches of football tournaments.
