Early Doors - Your morning briefing blog

Fans of historical re-enactments would have seen echoes of the past in the way Germany repeatedly stormed their way through a crumbling Polish defence yesterday, particularly with a bloke called Fritz on the right wing. Group B at Euro 2008 also features Austria and Croatia, meaning you can almost drive from...More

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Early Döorß presents its players to watch for Euro 2008. Not for anything good, you understand, but because they might do something a bit naughty. Austria - Emanuel Pogatetz Mad Pog was banned for six months after breaking Yaroslav Kharitoniskiy's leg in two places while on loan at Spartak Moscow in...More

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Two days remain until the start of Euro 2008, and the excitement in Austria and Switzerland has reached feverish levels. Which, in medical terms, means about 39 degrees centigrade - only slightly higher than normal, but enough to make you feel quite unwell.Early Döorß might hail from a remote Alpine...More

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With Euro 2008 now only a matter of days away (although, if we're being pedantic, it's always been only a matter of days away, depending on your chosen unit of time measurement) Early Döorß is busily assembling its fantasy football team using the brilliant, if puzzlingly Germanic, eurosport.yahoo.co.uk Euro 2008 Fantasy...More

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Ach du Liebe! No sooner does Early Doors move its seat-back into the upright position and jet off on its holidays (Megabus to Cleethorpes, actually) than some news happens.Which is bad news for your Alpine exchange student, Early Döorß, who is unable to make its debut talking about its specialist...More

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Martin O'Neill recently criticised end-of-season friendlies on the basis that players "should be sitting on a beach" by the time June rolls around. Early Doors suspects England probably expended less energy against Trinidad and Tobago last night than they would have done playing Frisbee and buying ice-creams.They might as well...More

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In its playing days, Early Doors was a bit of a clogger. It hates pointless skills - the kind of flicks and tricks that everybody seems to love but that achieve precisely nothing. Former world's most expensive player Denilson was the king of this, dribbling at his man with a...More

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Cristiano Ronaldo has a healthy enough ego - does he really need Carlos Queiroz to compare him with the bloke who discovered America? The Manchester United second banana has weighed into the increasingly ludicrous war of words with Real Madrid over the man who is to humility what Sharon Stone...More

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Eyes right for a shameless ogle at the streakers who interrupted Italy's Euro 2008 training as part of a stunt for TV. See, this is the kind of fun we're missing out on thanks to that idiot McClaren. Think about it when tonight's meaningless friendly trudges into its 74th soul-crushing...More

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John Terry's miss last week provoked a bizarre outpouring of grief and a letter of condolence from the Primer Minister ("From one loser to another - Love Gordon"). But JT should buck up his ideas and get down to Brockworth in Gloucestershire, where sport really is a matter of life...More

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