France deserved to be Champions for being the most enterprising team throughout a tournament that was Champions League Last 16 standard, at best.
However, the teams with the game plan and the solid defence tended to overachieve. That’s why Wales beat the individually more talented Belgium, and also why Portugal reached the Final (like him or loathe him, Pepe would walk into any English club side)
The competition became lopsided thanks to late goals from Croatia and Iceland in the Group Stages, but that's the price you pay for tinkering with a format that didn’t need tinkering.
Spain and Germany were Barcelona Lite, desperately yearning for those pesky foreign strikers who dominate the Bundesliga and La Liga.
England were an embarrassing shambles, but would still have beaten Iceland with John Terry, or (God forbid) Ryan Shawcross in the team.
Oh, and if that shitty Iceland handclap ever reaches the ETIHAD, I might do something that I definitely won’t regret.
