Although taking place a year later than it should have done the Euros produced some excellent matches throughout the tournament with Italy winning the tournament on July 11th beating England in the final at Wembley.
For the first time the tournament was played in multiple countries which proved a success although some teams did have to travel a lot more than others, Wales had a lot of travelling whilst England played all their games at Wembley bar their quarter final versus Ukraine.
The group stages contained no real surprises with France ending up top of the so called ‘Group of death’ which also contained Portugal, Germany, and Hungary. France, Portugal, and Germany all progressed to the last sixteen, but all went out at this stage, France were shocked by local neighbours Switzerland in what was probably the biggest shock of the tournament.
Rafael Nadal served up a tennis master class in Paris and won his 12th French Open crown which is a remarkable achievement.
The Champions League has now reached the semi-final stage and feature two mouth-watering ties, Liverpool v Barcelona and Tottenham Hotspur v Ajax which are both two legged affairs being played over the next two weeks.