Ex-plo-sive, Albanian-coast s*#!

The only Euro 2008 qualifier I got to see was the second half of Albania-Netherlands. The Dutchies scored a late goal from Ruud Van Nistelrooy, your typical Ruud Van Nistelrooy goal at that, sealing a valuable three points on the road. The game was called with two minutes of injury time remaining because a firework exploded just meters from Mario Melchiot's head! Holy crap!

I wanted to watch this game because the world is clamoring over Real Madrid new-boy Wesley Sneijder, bought from Ajax last month for 27 million Euros. That's great business for a club like Ajax, who failed to make the Champions League group stages once again, even though they will no doubt miss Sneijder. He looked very good, but was overshadowed by Ruud's late heroics. However, I wish he would have celebrated like this, one of my all-time favorites:

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