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The phony war at the European Championship is over. Let the games begin. Playing 36 matches for the expedient of reducing 24 teams to a final 16 proved as bad an idea on grass as it always looked on paper.
UEFA have essentially come up with a scheme to reward failure as four third-place teams sail into the knockout rounds.
A return of fewer than two goals per game is not good entertainment, and it's hard to believe the new format had nothing to do with that. France's tepid goalless draw with Switzerland is 90 minutes of our lives we will never get back.
Under the old system, Portugal and Cristiano Ronaldo would be flying home. Now, with three draws, they are parachuted into the soft side of the draw for the knockout rounds.
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