Anyone who is brave enough to confidently pick a winner this year is, quite simply, a mad man, and the first week of this tournament proves that. The notion of ‘big teams’ in this competition is almost irrelevant, and it is no surprise as to why there is so much chatter about dark horses leading up to the tournament. If we take a look at our typical ‘big teams’, we can see that the European football landscape is starting to even out and become more competitive, allowing ‘outsiders’ to rise up and steal the limelight, such as Croatia.
Euro 2016: a tournament for the outsiders
