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Who Ate All The Pies found this 6/10/2008 on blogs.guardian.co.uk [flag]
The Swedes remain the flat-pack triple-shelf beech-veneer book case of international tournaments - durable, unspectacular, always hanging about the place, but likely to collapse quietly as soon as the going gets really tough. A semi-final in their home tournament in 1992 remains their best showing at the Euros. Consistency has been their greatest asset: under Lars Lagerback Sweden have now ... [link]

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Euro 2008 team guide: Sweden
Published 6/10/2008 by Ollie Irish at Who Ate All The Pies
... The reliable ex-Villa centre-back is Sweden's most important defender. Hard fact In reaching the Euro 2008 finals, Sweden qualified for their fifth successive major international tournament. What the media say "All in all the Swedes look good for another unspectacular progression out of the group stages, after which they will be hoping to surprise a few people. On the other hand, they'll probably get France in the last eight. So quarter-finals and no further it probably is." [ Guardian Unlimited ] What the bookies say They don't have much faith in the Swedes, who are ...

Euro 2008 team guide: Sweden
Published 6/10/2008 by Ollie Irish at Who Ate All The Pies
... The reliable ex-Villa centre-back is Sweden's most important defender. Hard fact In reaching the Euro 2008 finals, Sweden qualified for their fifth successive major international tournament. What the media say "All in all the Swedes look good for another unspectacular progression out of the group stages, after which they will be hoping to surprise a few people. On the other hand, they'll probably get France in the last eight. So quarter-finals and no further it probably is." [ Guardian Unlimited ] What the bookies say They don't have much faith in the Swedes, who are ...

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Can't Stop The Bleeding found this 6/11/2008 on news.bbc.co.uk

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Can't Stop The Bleeding found this 6/11/2008 on www.epltalk.com

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