The gloves come off for Euro 2012

Two years on from South Africa and we are back for some fly by the seat of your pants predictions, anxieties, and all the human emotions that are packaged together when watching the greatest game on the planet. Whether your team is geographically ineligible, failed to qualify, or is there but they may as well have stayed home, Football4Mates will glue you to your seat for even the most irrelevant group match. To those disgruntled Brazilian and Argentinean fans who watch the Euros with a sense of distaste, here is your chance to vent out your frustration and put those/us Europeans in their place. This is Euro 2012, and who can resist? Unlike the World Cup where political correctness is the order of the day, the gloves come off for the Euros and all stereotypes, rivalries and current political frustrations are unleashed. Historical denial is about the only thing that will not be tolerated. It is Eurovision with a punch.

Football4Mates will fasten you to your couch for 30 games, following players, goals and near misses, injuries, dives, handballs, dramas of extra time and triumphs of victory. You compete with mates for football knowledge supremacy or suffer the indignity of defeat and even humiliation. Even irrelevant games such as Poland v Russia will be elevated to a status of meaning and purpose, and that just about says it all. However, this is no World Cup. We are not going to use snobbishly ignorant slogans like 'expert pundits' who claim that the Euros offer a better quality of international football. However, the competition is extremely intense for Football4Mates competitors. At Euro 2012, you will have half the games on offer, so there is virtually no time to warm into the competition. It's either fire from the first kick off (Poland v Greece, June 9) or you'll be facing the prospect of scrapping egg off your face even before English team pack their bags for an early return. 

Players Entry Fees go solely towards prizes for the Top 3 players, so make your predictions wisely because there will be no excuses if your tournament lies in tatters from dodgy refereeing decisions, poor team performances, or predictions made from the heart rather than the mind.

For some of you it is high time you put your money where your mouths are and break the Mediterranean domination that continuously sweeps away our tournament. All the usual suspects will be making their return including our World Cup Supremo, Rayment.

It promises to be an awesome tournament and we are hoping to once again give you an added spice to it and enjoy every game, even if your nation is not involved.