Geneva is a great place, but expensive but, as it's a late kick-off, I assume you'll have to stay there, otherwise I'd have suggested staying in Annecy.  I've not been to Geneva for years but can recall plenty of bars and restaurants close to the lake.

As for tickets, be prepared to pay through the nose, especially once the touts work out you're English.  At the World Cup in Germany, we tried for tickets at some of the earlier matches - Portugal v Angola they were after €200 each, I paid €350 for two tickets for USA v Czech Republic, and that was at grounds that held 50,000+.

If they're planning something similar to the Fanfests they had in Germany it'll be worth going for that, over 20,000 fans watching matches on big screens

Blimey! No chance of getting match tickets for face value then?
Can't afford big money like that on a civil service salary! Will it make a difference with no England at the tournament? Just found out the match I'd be interested in going to is Turkey v Czech Republic.

The touts in Germany were very well organised and wouldn't budge on prices - a friend who I went with had been to France 98, Euro 2000 and Euro 2004 and had never had these problems in the past. As England aren't there it might be different, but the grounds are a lot smaller than usual.

I applied for tickets via the UEFA lottery last year and they were massively oversubscribed so expect there to be lots of fans looking for not many tickets.

Also, keep an eye on ebay as plenty of tickets came up on there last time.

Half-Time: Spain 0-0 Italy
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Toni had perfectly good goal disallowed for no reason...nothing changes

No big worries, but the age of the back line is a cause for concern perhaps.

Italy played as badly as England. Dont kid yourselves

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Kt-uYIkkVw

Portugal 1-2 Greece

Perhaps not the most exciting prospect for a neutral, but I really recommend viewing, purely for two terrific goals from Karagounis.

With seasons all over drawing to a close, I'm really beginning to look forward to the tournament.

Yep, should be a good'un. I'll be interested to see if Spain will be much cop now they've got a world-class player.

I'll go for Portugal as my dark-horses, although I reckon the Germans will win it.

I am not on board with some of the Azzurri vets making the squad.   Matrix should not be going.  ADP should go but not start.  Oddo should stay home.  

Italia really need to bring in some more younger players in the squad to get some big tourney feel.

Get ready for WC 2010 damnit!!!

Spain always seem to have World class players and yet still bottle it.  Maybe years of underachievement will make them a bit humbler this time around.  

Portugal are always worth a bet and the Germans will probably make the final.

Italy are I think 7/1 last time I checked which is a good price for the current WC holders.  I dont think anyone thinks Italy will do anything other than a solid job and wont exactly set the tournament alight.  I would like to see some young players being taken for the experience, but I dont hold out much hope for Italy winning the thing. Being in the group of death will test them early on and if they are thinking of being slow starters this tourney they might well find themselves on the plane home early.

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I'll go for Portugal as my dark-horses.

Considering they got to the final last time, narrowly missed out on the World Cup final two years ago, and have the best footballer in the world, I'm not really sure you can qualify Portugal as dark horses!