A bit late seeing as it's already a week into the tournament...

So Ireland were the first team to be knocked out, after they got thrashed 4-0 by Spain last night.

Holland's progress to the quarter-finals after two losses now depends on them beating Portugal and Germany beating Denmark.

From an English point of view, it seems to me that there is a lot less expectation on England to do well this time than there has been in previous Euro and World Cup competitions. May fans have now accepted that we are no longer in the "top tier" of international football and are second class when compared with Spain, Germany, Brazil, etc.

However, as Denmark and Greece have shown in Euro 92 and 04, with this format of only 16 teams any team can win. Once you're out of the group stage you're straight into the quarter finals...