The 16 teams that qualified will battle it out over the course of the next month to see who is the best in Europe.
There seems to be less hype in the UK than usual. I think we are finally realising that we are an outside shot and teams like Spain, Germany and Holland are far more skilled than us.
I will however be fully behind England to win this thing. We have a recently appointed manager in Roy Hodgson. He was also Liverpool manager not too long ago where he didn't do too well. He is vastly experienced however so lets hope he can put a good plan into action.
Here are the groups and fixtures:
Looking at the groups we should get through by beating both Sweden and Ukraine. Our toughest game is against France on June 11th. I'm not too sure if it is a good thing to get this fixture first. It may have been better to play Ukraine first and bag a win before taking on France. Then again this is Euro 2012 and to be the best you have to beat the best and a win in game 1 will set us up for the other 2 group fixtures.
Our main striker Wayne Rooney is suspended for the first 2 games so it will be interesting to see what line up goes out against France.
Group B looks like the group of death with 4 tough teams battling it out for 2 spots into the knock out stages. You can never rule out Germany and their history shows us that they are big comp players. They start up against Portugal on the 9th.
Spain and Italy should go through group C although it would be great to see the Republic of Ireland progress.
Pundits forecast Poland and Russia to top Group A. Watch out for Greece though who are on an impressive winning run.
Lets hope for an exciting event..!! The final is in Kiev on July 1st at the Olympic Stadium.
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