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The Eurpean championchip will be held here in Sweden next year. Some info
has been released by the Swedish Football Assisiation. The tournament will
take place at four different arenas.

1. R�sunda Fotbollsstadion, Solna. Arena for Group I (teams 1-4)
   Located just outside Stockholm. Capacity; 31.000, all seats.

2. Malm� Stadion, Malm�. Arena for group I (teams 1-4)
   South of Sweden, just an hour boatride from Copenhagen, Capacity;
   36.000. 20.000 seats, 16.000 standing.

3. Ullevi Stadion, G�teborg. Arena for group II (teams 5-8)
   West coast of Sweden. Capacity; 40.000.

4. Norrk�pings Idrottspark, Norrk�ping. arena for group II (teams 5-8)
   About 170 kms south of Stockholm. Capacity; 22.000. 10.500 seats,
   11.500 standing.

Date	Day	Match	Location	Time		Teams

10/6	Wen.	  1	Stockholm	20.15		1 - 2
11/6	Thur.	  2	Malm�		20.15		3 - 4
12/6	Fri.	  3	G�teborg	17.15		5 - 6
12/6	Fri.	  4	Norrk�ping	20.15		7 - 8

14/6	Sun.	  5	Stockholm	20.15		1 - 3
14/6	Sun.	  6	Malm�		17.15		2 - 4
15/6	Mon.	  7	G�teborg	20.15		5 - 7
15/6	Mon.	  8	Norrk�ping	17.15		6 - 8

17/6	Wen.	  9	Stockholm	20.15		1 - 4
17/6	Wen.	 10	Malm�		20.15		2 - 3
18/6	Thur.	 11	G�teborg	20.15		5 - 8
18/6	Thur.	 12	Norrk�ping	20.15		6 - 7

21/6	Sun.	 13	Stockholm	20.15	     I:1  - II:2
22/6	Mon.	 14	G�teborg	20.15	     II:1 - I:2

26/6	Fri.	 15	G�teborg	20.15		FINAL

    
Ticket-prices for Euro-92. These are in local currency (SEK). (�1 = 10 SEK)

Category	Group-matches		Opening game,		Final
					Semi-finals

Seats

  1		450:-			520:-			585:-
  2		400:-			460:-			520:-
  3		350:-			385:-			420:-
  4		300:-			330:-			360:-
  5		250:-			275:-			300:-

Stands

  6		150:-			165:-			180:-
  7		100:-			110:-			120:-

The number of tickets will be devided in the following proportions;

Group-matches where Sweden plays;

- 65 % to Swedish supporters
- 20 % to the opposite supporters
- 15 % to press and sponsors

Group-matches where Sweden Don't play;

- 45 % to Swedish spectators
- 40 % to both teams supporters (20 % each)
- 15 % to press and sponsors

Semifinals and final;

- 70 % to Swedish spectators (supporters)
- 30 % to the rest of the categorys

The tickets will be sold in packages. One package contains three tickets,
and you can choose any matches you want, and one of those three tickets may
be either one semifinal, or the final.

To buy a seat for one semifinal or the final, all three tickets in the package
must be seats. Combinated packages (seats/stands) can only include standing 
    for one semifinal, or the final.

You can only buy a limit of packages at one time. Yoy can buy them at the 
arenas or ordering them by phone. 

The release date for the tickets are August 15:th 1991. You can't buy or order
any tickets before that date.

The drawing for the tournamnet will take place on the 17:th of January
1992 in Stockholm.

Sweden are guaranteed all three group-matches in Stockholm, so they will be
team number 1. If Holland qualify, the will be guaranteed all their three
group-matches on the same arena ie. Ullevi, G�teborg. They will be team
number 5.

If Holland do not qualify, the team that have the highest ranking at that
time (17/1-92) will be guaranteed all their three group-matches on the
same arena ie. Ullevi, G�teborg. They will be team number 5.
                                          

    
    Thanks Mats 
    
    For This comprehensive information.
    
    Lets hope that Ireland qualify so that I can use it........
    
    
    cheers
    
    Liam

Now that Holland have qualified for Sweden, seven countries is clear. As 
current Euro-Cup holders, Holland are guaranteed their three groupmatches
on the same arena (Ullevi, Gothenburg). So is Sweden, they will play at
R�sunda Fotbollsstadion, Stockholm.

	Group I		Group II

	Sweden		Holland
	Team 2		Team 6
	Team 3		Team 7
	Team 4		Team 8

There's no seeding for the other teams. The drawing will take place 17
Januari in Stockholm.

Mats

    
    OSS is clear for Euro-92. Now, whats OSS?
    
    OSS is tormer USSR, the manager Vjateslav Kolaskov konfirmed yesterday
    that OSS (USSR) is coming to Sweden.
    
    About Yugoslavia, nothing is decided yet. There will be some meetings
    before the drawing next sunday to decide weather Yugoslavia or Denmark
    will participate.
    
    BTW, there will be no domestic games on Ullevi before Euro-92, so the
    pitch will be green and nice. Ullevi is actually called Nya Ullevi (New
    Ullevi) and there is a Gamla Ullevi (Old Ullevi) as well. Gamla Ullevi
    is about 500 meters away from Nya Ullevi, and it will be used for
    practice during the tournament.
    
    Mats

    Gentlemen,
    
    This afternoon 16.00 local time, the drawing for Euro-92 will take
    place. Nils Liedholm will make the drawing, and i hope that hes kind to
    us. My wish is;
    
    Stockholm/Malmo	        Gothenburg/Norrkoping
    
    Sweden			Holland
    France			England
    Yugoslavia			Scotland
    USSR (OSS)			Germany
    
    Sweden beated Yugoavia 4-3 on September 4.th last year, and that was
    probably the last time that Cratians and Serbians (sp?) played together.
    Dispite the romours, Yugoslavia got a green ligt from UEFA last night.
    USSR (OSS in Swedish, what is it in English?) have Sweden played good
    against the last years. I hope France and Sweden makes it to the semis.
    Then i wan't Holland in the semi and Germany or England in the final.
    Any wishes out there?
    
    Mats

    
    I don't mind which group we will be drawn in as there aren't weak teams
    one can underestimate. And I think our team is strong enough to compete
    with the best.
    
    I'm very interested in France's performance against this opposition
    after dominating their qualification group so perfectly. They must be
    in a good form. (should be a good semifinalist for us :-), :-))
    
    G�nter 

    
    The England v France friendly has been confirmed and will
    not be called off even if the two teams are drawn in the 
    same group.
    
    JN.

Has the draw been completed yet, or are they still doing the usual song
and dance routine before they start ?

    
    
    And The Draw is:
    
    Group 1              Group 2
    
    Sweden               Holland
    France               Scotland
    England              USSR
    Yugoslavia           Germany
    
    
    Good draw for the English, not so sure about us!!!
    
    

Well, well, opening game against France, what a start. Tommy Svensson looked 
quite pleased, avoiding Germany and Scotland. The groups is;

Group 1			Group 2

Sweden			Holland
France			Scotland
Yugoslavia		CIS
England			Germany

Date	Day	Match	Location	Time		Teams

10/6	Wen.	  1	Stockholm	20.15		Sweden	   - France
11/6	Thur.	  2	Malm�		20.15		Yugoslavia - England 
12/6	Fri.	  3	G�teborg	17.15		Holland	   - Scotland
12/6	Fri.	  4	Norrk�ping	20.15		CIS        - Germany

14/6	Sun.	  5	Stockholm	20.15		Sweden     - Yugoslavia
14/6	Sun.	  6	Malm�		17.15		France     - England
15/6	Mon.	  7	G�teborg	20.15		Holland    - CIS
15/6	Mon.	  8	Norrk�ping	17.15		Scotland   - Germany

17/6	Wen.	  9	Stockholm	20.15		Sweden     - England
17/6	Wen.	 10	Malm�		20.15		France     - Yugoslavia
18/6	Thur.	 11	G�teborg	20.15		Holland    - Germany
18/6	Thur.	 12	Norrk�ping	20.15		Scotland   - CIS

21/6	Sun.	 13	Stockholm	20.15	     I:1  - II:2
22/6	Mon.	 14	G�teborg	20.15	     II:1 - I:2

26/6	Fri.	 15	G�teborg	20.15		FINAL

A draw against France, a win over Yugoslavia and drawing against England will 
hopefully put us in the semi. As Tommy said, if all players makes a good 
performance at the same time, anything can happen.

Mats

    Anyone no what the TV coverage of the tournament will be, any Satellite
    channels covering all the matches ?
    
    Denis

    
    Latest reports says that all games exept the semi-finals are sold out.
    There are a few hundred tickets available for those two semis. There
    will be an extra release of tickets on the 21st of April if the Swedish
    Football association gets any in return. Most of the non-Swedish
    tickets have gone to different travelling agencys around europe, and
    there is some returns expected from countries like Italy, Switzerland
    and Ireland...
    
    Mats

    
    Mats,
    
    Since ouy sem to know everything: I bought my vouchers when they were
    released in August. When will they be be exchangeable for proper
    tickets?
    
    Heja Sverige!
    
    	Stefan

    
    Well Stefan, last night i passed Ullevi and asked a person there, and
    he told me that at the bottom of the voucher there is a date and a place
    where you can convert it in to tickets.
    
    It will be a hard time for us CS engineers during the tournament. The
    Digital building is nearly in the safety-zone, and many streets around
    us will be sealed off. Our parkinglot will surely be filled up.The 
    lightboard on Ullevi is based on a PDP, and i would gladly volounteer 
    to sit there on-site...:-)
    
    Mats

    
    Thanks Mats, I'll look at the voucher.
    
    The DEC office in Stockholm is also within easy walking distance from
    R�sunda. This is perfect for a pre-match drink if the authorities give
    in to the hooligan-hysteria and dry out all the bars within commuting
    distance. 
    
    How many of you Englishers and Frenchies plan to come here?
    
    

    Not one British referee has been appointed to referee in Sweden during
    the championships. 15 Refs have been chosen. No explanation from FIFA but 
    it's generally agreed that the Brits have become too lenient on physical 
    challenges and too petty on technical issues. Has the British press
    anything to say about it ?
    
    	- Robin

    
    > Brits have become too lenient on physical challenges
    
    In Britain we generally dont have players leaping 15 feet in the air
    screaming for fouls everytime an opposing player is in the same half, as
    occurs in a lot of other countries. It seems to me that European
    referees are a little too whistle-happy in such situations.
    So i wouldnt say that British referees are lenient, they just dont
    stand for any nonsense from the 'fouled' player.
    JMO,
    Ian.

    
    I enjoy watching the skill and flair produced by the Southern 
    continental footballers, ie, Italy, France and Spain et cetera.
    The thing is, an Italian football match for example actually
    takes 120 minutes to play a 90 game simply due to the amount
    of time players spend rolling around on the ground and general
    time wasting at free kicks and giving the ref a mental time
    over every decision he makes.
    
    I would say that the REFs on the continent have a much harder time
    of things.
    
    JN.

	Contrast this to a game of rugby, where players do their best
	*not* to show they've been hurt in a tackle.

	Dave

>>    In Britain we generally dont have players leaping 15 feet in the air
>>    screaming for fouls everytime an opposing player is in the same half, as

	I trust you haven't been watching Mark Hughes this season (any season!)
	I just pray the rumours are false and that he's not coming to Spurs.

	Michael.

    As well as a certain Hughes, Looneypool have Ronnie 'The Sub'
    Rosenthal, who is an expert at diving in or around the area towards the
    end of the game, especially whwn the Scousers are losing. He attempted
    to do this at Elland Road, but was thwarted by the fact that he had to
    be around the penalty area to do this, he had problems getting into the
    Leeds half....
    
    jb.

    
    In football there is a very strong definition what you are allowed to
    do on the field and what you are not allowed to do. When i watch
    English football on saturday afternoons, i often wonder how players can
    get away with their tackles. In Britain you want to play a physical
    type of football, and the referees accepts it. That's the name of the
    game for you, and therefor you don't lie on the ground five minutes every 
    time you get hurt.
    
    I think that FIFA (and UEFA) has come to the conclution that football
    has reached a level where the brutality is not longer acceptable. The
    new rules about sending offs clearly says that players should not make
    fouls on players who gets free from their defenders. In my opinion,
    British football is unnessecary hard some times, and makes talented
    players afraid to dribble. The goal we all loved most in the WC-86 was
    Maradona's goal against England, when he dribbled the whole English
    defense. We all love players, and personally i hate defenders who tackles 
    from behind and berries a forward 3 feet down in the ground.
    
    What im trying to say is that international referees must be harder and
    "whistle-happy" to prevent ugly play. I don't know much about English
    referees, but those i have seen this season has been surprisingly poor. 
    
     Mats

    At least in English games you don't get the pathetic play acting seen
    in the Bundesliga (apart from Watson of Sheff Wed and Mark Hughes at
    times).
    
    jb.

What about Nyim of Spurs....He falls even when there is no one next to him...

Limpdick of Arsenal.....

Barnes of Looneypool....Speciality  in falling down every time he is in the box.

Need I say more...!!

Tony

    re last..
    
    I disagree with you about Barnes, but the other 2 aren't British so I
    think you should be agreeing with the other noters who hinted that this
    type of infuriating display of pretend injury seems to be an European
    stlye playing disease..
    Plus how many times have you seen English referees ignore the
    supposedly injured player and demand the continuation of play (even if
    he has won the free kick). The player seems to miraculously recover,
    it must be seen as a better cure for serious injury then the "magic
    sponge"..
    
    On the point raised about Maradonna's goal I think you will find that
    the referees protection of such a player gave him a tackle free run at
    our goal.. Earlier in the game Fenwick was booked when Maradonna and
    ball ran straight into him (this meant Fenwick would miss the next
    game if we progressed). Bearing this in mind I think the English
    defence were frightened to challenge the little cheat (oooops),thus
    letting him score. Next time you see the goal on TV take a close look
    at the amount of players within tackling range all the way through his
    run !!
    
    Furthermore, would (should) Gazza have been booked if the German player
    and bench hadn't have made such a hoo haar about his challenge. In
    England he would have been walking a fine line for the challenge but
    referees are more likely to give him a stern talking to and warned him
    the next time he steps out of line he will leave him no choice but to
    reach for the cards...
    
    Gary.. 
    

Re .24, Mats, I have to agree with you. Irrespective of all the 'acting' that 
goes on, English football has allowed the physical to rule over the football. 
That can easily be seen by the number of 'exciting' players we have in English 
(and Scottish?) football. Hardly any. Even our most exciting talent manages to 
cripple himself by proving his 'commitment'.

There's definitely a place for physical challenge in football, but in England 
it's been taken just too far. Wish I knew how we could get back to a less 
agressive style . . .

grahame

    
10/6  Stockholm  20.15	Sweden     - France       Alexei Spirin, CIS
11/6  Malm�	 20.15	Yugoslavia - England      John Blankenstein, Holland 
12/6  G�teborg	 17.15	Holland    - Scotland     Bo Karlsson, Sverige
12/6  Norrk�ping 20.15	CIS        - Germany      Gerard Biquet, France

    
    
    
Here is the list of referees for the tournament
    
Date  Location   Time   Teams			  Referee
    
14/6  Stockholm  20.15	Sweden     - Yugoslavia   Schmidhuber, Germany
14/6  Malm�      17.15	France     - England      Sandor Puhl, Hungary
15/6  G�teborg   20.15	Holland    - CIS          Jos� Santos, Portugal
15/6  Norrk�ping 17.15	Scotland   - Germany      Guy Goethals, Belgium

17/6  Stockholm	 20.15	Sweden     - England      Peter Mikkelsen, Denmark
17/6  Malm�	 20.15	France     - Yugoslavia   Hubert Forstinger, Austria
18/6  G�teborg	 20.15	Holland    - Germany	  Pier-Luigi Pairetto, Italy
18/6  Norrk�ping 20.15  Scotland   - CIS          Kurt R�thlisberger, Austria
    
For the semis and the final, three referees has been selected;
    
Emilio Soriano, Spain
Bruno Galler, Switzerland
Tullio Lanese, Italy
    
Who will referee what game will be decided later. Some ot these name are very
familiar to me. Schmidhuber, R�thlisberger and Galler are all experiensed
referees. Bo Karlsson has a good international reputation, the game between
Marseille and Milan last year(?) handled he good when Milan refused to play 
the last minutes. There will be referee-teams on all games, so the refs will
bring along their mates as linesmen.
    
Mats