The Euro 2008 football tournament is finally wrapping up with the final to be played in Vienna this Sunday.

Spain comfortably beat a disappointing Russia, a team which promised so much but just simply didn’t deliver. Russian team play and energy was non-existent in comparison to their previous two matches against the Netherlands and Sweden. One key reason I believe is because their man of the moment, Andrei Arshavin, wasn’t really involved in the game. On previous matches he was orchestrating the Russian play, this time he was silent.

Spain hasn’t won a major football honour since 1964 when they won the European Cup. Amazingly, this is even further back than England’s victory in the 1966 World Cup.

For Germany on the other hand have only been without a major honour since 1996 when they won the Euro 96 in England.

Germany reached the final by beating a resilient Turkish team whose luck had simply run out. After going one up I seriously wondered if Turkey could finish the unimpressive Germans off. Well in the end they obviously couldn’t with Philipp Lahm’s goal sealing the deal for Germany.

My predictions for this tournament are left in shambles, flipping a coin would have been more accurate, but my call for the team to lift the cup is Germany.