UEFA European Football Championship 2012
The Headlines They Were Too Scared To Publish
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Contents:
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Semi-finals & final
Portugal 0 Spain 0 Spain win 4-2 on penalties 27th June 2012
Another disappointingly goalless game ended in the inevitably 12-yard lottery. The most striking feature of the shoot-out was that Ronaldo was lined up for the fifth kick, but never got a chance to take it. Speculation followed as to whether this was a mistake, and this inspired spaceman’s line of…
Portugal can't count on penalties as Spain emerge from barren Iberian wasteland
…also slipping in a pun on Siberian wasteland since there was little in the way of definitive goal action. Eduardo Bruno Alves had missed the crucial kick at the end before Fabregas scored his in-off the post. Hence Brunginho’s:
Bru-no go for Portugal as Fab effort spins in
Just shaded by spaceman.
Italy 2 (Balotelli 20’, 36’) Germany 1 (Ozil (pen) 90’) 28th June 2012
Mario Balotelli came into his own with two goals in the first half and Germany never recovered. Spaceman saw the chance of a computer game reference:
Both are good here (once the original is edited to majority of 1 to be numerically accurate) so both get a point (i.e. it's a draw).
Spain 4 (Silva 14’, Alba 41’, Torres 84’, Mata 88’) Italy 0 1st July 2012
The final of this generally entertaining competition turned out to be no contest whatsoever. Italy showed some resolve but they were ultimately outclassed. There was a plethora of suggested headlines following this match, starting with spaceman’s food-related effort:
Weary Italians given Spanish tap as pizza history made
Spaceman managed to reference foodstuffs famous in both countries, albeit in a slightly contrived way (research suggested that “giving some tap” is a fairly rare, colloquial phrase). Brunginho’s first go was:
Spanish fire Silva bullet to nullify Italian weary wolves
Quincy could not resist joining in with the more-or-less-just-factual (which had to be edited from three-star to reflect Mata’s late goal):
Four-star Spain smash Buffon's boys in blue
Brunginho ploughed an already used furrow with:
The reign of Spain continues in Ukraine
Meanwhile spaceman noted that many of these players have played together for a number of years to inspire the following headline, fittingly ending this cringeworthy sequence with more financial wordplay:
Spanish show long bonds key to securing Euros
Spaceman takes the final with a fine display of punnery.
And that was the end of that tournament, wrapping up a quite exhausting sequence of brain wracking.
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