Check out the round ups below, and look back here at the end of the tournament, for my round up and a chance for you to have your say!!

TODAY marks the halfway stage in Euro 2000 and the final round of group games that will reduce the original 16-team field to eight quarter-finalists. But what have been the highs and lows, the gaffes, and moments of magic at Euro 2000 so far? Eurofinals365 reveals all...

BEST TEAM: France.
Runner-Up: Italy.

BEST PLAYER: Luis Figo (Portugal).
Runner-Up: Thierry Henry (France).

CHRIS SUTTON'S SOULMATE: Filipo Inzaghi, Italy. The phrase 'couldn't hit the proverbial barn door' was made for him.
Runner-Up: Michael Owen, England. Never threatened to make an impact comparable to his France 98 heroics and was substituted in all three of England's matches.

TOO GOOD FOR HIS TEAM: Pavel Nedved, Czech Republic.
Runner-Up: Zlatko Zahovic, Slovenia.

BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT: Sweden. Many people's tip to be the surprise package, they ended the tournament with just a point to their name and their tails firmly between their legs. Proof that topping a qualifying group containing the current England side is no guarantee of quality.
Runners-Up: Seaman/Martyn, Neville (P), Neville (G), Adams, Keown, Campbell, Scholes, Beckham, Wise, McManaman, Ince, Owen, Shearer, Heskey, Keegan. And, of course, all the bevvied-up, chair-throwing idiots who claim to follow the aforementioned overpaid headless chickens.

BEST MATCH: Slovenia 3 Yugoslavia 3.
Runner-Up: Portugal 3 England 2.

WORST MATCH: Norway 0 Yugoslavia 1.
Runner-Up: Sweden 0 Turkey 0.

BEST GOAL: Luis Figo, Portugal v England.
Runner-Up: Thierry Henry, France v Denmark.

WORST MISS: Viorel Moldovan's double effort for Romania against Germany; the first was accurate but poorly struck; the second was well hit but wide, wild and anything but handsome.
Runner-Up: Freddie Ljungberg for Sweden against Italy. Six feet out, an open goal... and it all went pear-shaped. Never mind Freddie, now that Sweden are out there'll be no need for any more porno flicks.

BIGGEST SHOCK: The opening match (Belgium 2 Sweden 1) got the tournament off to a cracking start from which there have been surprisingly few dips. Long may it continue - and it probably will now England are going home.
Runner-Up: Turkey reaching the second stage (the first time they have done so in a major championship in their history). It looked unlikely before the tournament started and inconceivable after they took just a point from their two drab opening matches, but a 2-0 win over Belgium saw them through.

BIGGEST HOWLER: Belgium keeper Filip de Wilde's clanger gifted Turkey the opening goal and he it followed up by seeing red in the dying moments. A tournament to forget both for de Wilde and his country.
Runner-Up: Filip de Wilde. Standing on the ball and falling over is never clever; doing it in the first match of the tournament is positively foolish. After Tuesday though, the good news for De Wilde is that Phil Neville confirmed his early promise to become a leading contender for his 'clown of the tournament' crown. What is it with blokes called Phil, eh?

MOST MEMORABLE MOMENT: England beating Germany, of course.
Runner-Up: A tie between Yugoslavia's comeback from 3-0 down against Slovenia with ten men to snatch a draw and the split-second in which you watched Phil Neville dive into that tackle inside the England area - you just knew it was all going to go so horribly wrong...

FUNNIEST MOMENT: The re-enactment of the 'Arnie carries out repairs on himself' scene from The Terminator in which an utterly impassive Jaap Stam had a cut above his eye stitched up during the win over the Czech Republic. Not for the faint-hearted but utterly hilarious.
Runner-Up: Impossible to choose between anything to do with De Wilde, Inzaghi's finishing prowess and Martin Keown rubbing 'em/counting 'em after being hit by the ball.

WORST REFEERING DECISION: Anything given against Romania and in particular Gheorge Hagi. Well, that's according to the Romanians, and in particular, Gheorge Hagi.
Runner-Up: Anything given by Hugh Dallas - living proof that Scottish football is even worse than most dared imagine.

BEST WHINGE: "We had a clear penalty (against Turkey) which the referee did not see. Against Belgium they went 2-0 up on a handball" - Sweden's Freddie Ljungberg has obviously been taking notes from his Arsene Wenger, his manager at Arsenal.
Runner-Up: "Football can be so sad" - German newspaper Berliner Morgenpost laments the 1-0 defeat to England. Stop sniggering at the back!

BEST QUOTE: "You shake and shake and nothing happens, then all of a sudden it all pours out" - Ole Gunnar Solskjaer draws comparisons between Norwegian strike-partner Tore Andre Flo and a bottle of tomato ketchup. It's original, certainly.
Runner-Up: "I need a performance on Monday like I used to get week-in and week-out from Scott Sellars. If I could turn the clock back, Scott would solve all my current problems. I've thought about that a lot" - England coach Kevin Keegan. You may have laughed, but it's probably not far off the truth. Yes, we really are that bad.

BIGGEST GRIPE: The number of incorrect offside decisions - 'Dear Mr. Linepersons, a player is not, repeat NOT, offside if level with the last defender...'
Runner-Up: The number of games which failed to sell out and, of course, the fact that so many idiots follow England. And play for them.

BEST STAT ATTACK: During England's 3-2 defeat to Portugal, Domino's Pizza sales were up 35% compared to a normal Monday. Sales peaked directly after the Portuguese scored their third goal.
Runner-Up: In England's 1-0 victory over Germany, Keegan's team managed just five shots on goal compared to Germany's 15.

BEST CO-COMMENTATOR: David Pleat, ITV.
Runner-Up: Ron Atkinson, ITV.

WORST CO-COMMENTATOR: Mick McCarthy, BBC.
Runner-Up: Chris Kamara, Eurosport.

BEST TV PUNDIT: Johan Cruyff, BBC.
Runner-Up: Glenn Hoddle, ITV.

WORST TV PUNDIT: Barry Venison, ITV.
Runner-Up: Dion Dublin, BBC.

The Times

The highs and lows from the low countries


With the group stages over, the Sunday Times Euro 2000 diary celebrates the best and worst of the European Championship . . . so far

BEST GAME: Wednesday, June 21, 2000: Spain 4 Yugoslavia 3 - the first great game of the century.


Picture: Alfonso celebrates his last-gasp winner

The match with everything fizzled with passion, great skill, a sending-off, goals aplenty, a mini pitch invasion and excitement down to the 95th minute. Spain finally lived up to their pre-tournament reputation by sneaking into the quarter-finals courtesy of an Alfonso goal deep in stoppage time. For a few terrible seconds, the Yugoslavs thought they had failed to qualify but, on discovering that Norway had drawn with Slovenia, both sets of fans celebrated a truly great game.

WORST MATCH: Norway 0 Yugoslavia 1. Runner-up: Sweden 0 Turkey 0.

BEST TEAM: France, despite their second team losing to Holland. Runner-up: Italy.

BEST PLAYER: Thierry Henry (France).

BEST GOAL: Luis Figo, above, nutmegging Tony Adams at pace.

DEARLY DEPARTED: the best players who have left the competition - Pavel Nedved, below, Czech Republic. Runner-up: Zlatko Zahovic, Slovenia.

BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT: Perm any one from the 16 England players in action and the hundreds of their deported fans. Runners-up: Sweden, deeply boring despite winning their qualifying group at a canter.

WORST MISS: Romania's Viorel Moldovan dropped a double clanger against the hapless Germans. His first managed to head goalwards but barely reached its target; the second was well hit, but ended up in row Z. Second worst miss: Carsten Jancker (Germany), faced with an open goal against England, he slid the ball wide of the left-hand post.

MOST EMBARRASSING MOMENT: Belgium goalkeeper, Filip De Wilde, gifted Hakan Sukur Turkey's opening goal. Then compounded things by being sent off. Runner-up: Filip de Wilde. Slipped on the ball to gift a goal to Sweden during the competition's opening game.

NOT FOR THE SQUEAMISH: The running repair, complete with giant needle and shaky hand, on Jaap StamÕs eye injury. Runner-up: Martin KeownÕs skilful trapping of the ball with his groin during EnglandÕs defeat by Romania.

BEST TACKLE: Spanish striker Alfonso's intercepting challenge on a fearsome Yugoslav pitch invader in the game that had everything.

WORST TACKLE: Phil Neville gifted Romania a late penalty to put England out of the tournament.

A GAME OF ONE HALF: Despite playing only 45 minutes in the tournament, Sweden's Roland Nilsson managed to give the ball away to Belgium's Bart Goor for the co-hostsÕ first goal before limping off with concussion two minutes later. He never reappeared.

THROWING A PADDY: Turkey and Glasgow Rangers' Tugay Kerimoglu, pictured below tackling Fredrick Ljungberg, gets the David Beckham award for petulance for his performance during Turkey's match with Belgium. Angered by being substituted, he threw his shin pads at his coach, Mustafa Denizili, and caught the first flight back to Glasgow.

ONE MINUTE OF FAME: Mateja Kezman made a big impact on his debut for Yugoslavia. Coming on as a late substitute against Norway, he was sent off after 60 seconds.

MOST VINDICATED MANAGER: Brian Little. At last Savo Milosevic proves the former Villa boss was a genius in the transfer market, turning out to be the scoring sensation of the tournament.

MOST INNOVATIVE ANALYST: Mark Lawrenson, who has created a new race, a people he calls 'Yugoslavians'. As if the Balkans didnÕt have enough ethnic problems.