The Spanish are the champions of Europe, winning only their second ever major trophy. The perennial underachievers defeated Germany by one goal to nil thanks to Liverpools dynamic frontman, Fernando Torres.

Spain, for me, definitely deserved the win, not only because they were the only team trying to actively win the match in the final, but because consistently they played the best football all tournament. I originally supported Portugal at the beginning of the tournament, but after seeing players like Petit play over Veloso, Simao over Quaresma/Nani and Deco constantly give the ball away I became frustrated and decided to just enjoy the tournament.

Officially Spain also won the official player of the tournament in the form of Barcelona midfielder, Xavi. How he won this I don’t know, he certainly wouldn’t make my tournament XI, for me Fabregas was easily the player of the tournament with players like Ramos and Ballack coming close.

Thankfully on the basis of this tournament we won’t see Man Utd make any impulse buys, only the players you expected to shine shone bar a few of the Croations such as Pranjic or Simunic, neither of whom I would have in the United team, so that’s definitely a positive as we’ve been guilty of it in the past (Cruyff, Kleberson and Poborski come to mind).

Well done Spain, congratulations.

Now we have Wimbledon on the go too, then the Premier League soon enough.