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Euro 2020
Turkey votes for Euro 2020 as it tries to mend fences
After missing out with their bid to stage the 2022 Olympic Games, Turkey must now convince a sceptical European football family that hosting Euro 2022 is not a mere consolation
Platini’s bold Euro plan set to be voted down
Michel Platini’s proposal for an all-over Euro 2020 will fail to win majority support among the European federation’s 53 members, according to one of the orginal bidding contenders.
Sharing the burden: Platini’s European Championship plan is beginning to make sense
As the cost of staging the European Championships becomes prohibitive for all bar a handful of countries, support for Michel Platini's proposal to spread the finals across 13 cities is…
When is a deadline not a deadline? When UEFA says so
Everyone seems pleased by UEFA's decision to extend their deadline to encourage further bids from countries wishing to host Euro 2020. It certainly might have done frontrunners Turkey a favour.
Act in haste…UEFA may be regretting its decision to expand the European Championships
The decision to increase the number of finalists at the European Championships seemed like a good idea at the time, but as UEFA is discovering, very few countries have the…
Never mind the quality, feel the width
The plan to increase the size of the European Championship finals to 24 teams, will bring with it several downsides, not least the expected drop in quality of a competition…
Turkey states its case for Euro 2020
Turkey will need to prove that it has cleaned up its act, if its bid to host the 2020 European Championships is to be taken seriously.