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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Salty25" data-source="post: 616386" data-attributes="member: 185281"><img src="http://www.satellites.co.uk/satellite/attachment.php?attachmentid=22663&stc=1&d=1246394426" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Germany are the Under-21 European champions after convincingly beating England 4-0 in Malmo’s Swedbank Arena. As with most final matches, the first goal is so crucial, as so it proved for Germany when Gonzalo Castro netted in the 23rd minute.England were never truly able to threaten a tight defensive unit guarded by holding midfielder Mats Hummel, either before or after Germany’s second goal – a rocket free-kick from long range by Mesut Ozil on 48.England nearly scored from a Adam Johnson back-heel and a Lee Cattermole header, but both were blocked on the line, before the trophy was sealed with 11 minutes to play when Sandro Wagner snuck through the English defence to make it three and then added a fourth five minutes later with a superb shot to corner from outside the box.While the final itself turned out to be somewhat rather less of a contest than we may have hoped for, the fight for the SupaLiga U21 did go to the wire.There were three contenders going into Monday night; me, Topper and Norm. I was leading beforehand, but a poor score of 50pts ended my hopes, so Laboratoire Kanye finished in 3rd. So it was down to the Tossers and Scozia Non C’e. They began the night level on 202pts each.The winning margin was one single point. 70pts to 69pts. The winner was Norm! The Scotsman’s score of 70 was the tournament’s top score, and this title will add to his growing haul of SupaLiga accolades, having won both the F1 and Premier League titles in 2007 and the inaugural UniSat Champions League this season just gone.And for the record, SupaLiga U21 finished up 41st in the league of league… pretty good when you consider there were 390 leagues <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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