A round up of today's other Euro 2008 stories in brief...

Polish prime minister vents anger at Webb decision 

POLAND'S PRIME minister said yesterday he felt like he wanted to kill Howard Webb when the English referee awarded the injury-time penalty that allowed Austria to snatch a 1-1 draw.

Ivica Vastic's late equaliser on Thursday meant Poland had to settle for one point from their first two games in Group B.

"As the prime minister I have to be balanced and collected," keen soccer fan Donald Tusk told reporters. "But last night I was speaking very differently about the whole thing, I wanted to kill.

"I thought it would have been better if we had lost in the first half when Austria had their chances and not after 93 minutes due to an obvious mistake."

Uefa spokesman William Gaillard said Webb had made the correct decision about the penalty in a news conference yesterday.

Polish radio reported yesterday that Webb may get police protection at home after receiving internet threats from members of Britain's large Polish community.

Mixed feelings for Swiss manager

SWITZERLAND COACH Koebi Kuhn's wife has been woken from a nine-day coma, he was quoted as saying by Swiss media yesterday.

Kuhn (64) whose team were knocked out of Euro 2008 by Turkey on Wednesday, said he had been told the good news shortly before his side's 2-1 defeat.

"I had two feelings inside me on Wednesday," Kuhn told said. "One of huge disappointment because we had gone out the tournament and a great joy because of the surprise news from the hospital.

"My wife has been woken from her induced coma. It is a huge step forward and she is doing much better now. It will certainly take some time still but we can be very confident."

Alice Kuhn was rushed to hospital after collapsing at the couple's home on June 2nd just as the Swiss team were reporting in for duty at their Euro 2008 training base.

She was discovered to have suffered an epileptic attack and was placed in an induced coma by the hospital's medical team.

Germany start counting the costs '

GERMANY MIDFIELDER Bastian Schweinsteiger will be suspended for Monday's decisive Euro 2008 Group B game against Austria, while top scorer Lukas Podolski is doubtful with an ankle injury.

Uefa handed Schweinsteiger a one-match ban after he was sent off for pushing Jerko Leko to the ground in Germany's 2-1 defeat by Croatia, a result that leaves them needing at least a draw against the co-hosts to reach the quarter-finals.

That punishment was to be expected but the injury to Podolski, who has scored all three of Germany's goals at the tournament, came as a nasty shock for coach Joachim Loew.

"Podolski has taken a knock on the ankle and could not train today," Loew said at a news conference yesterday. "We'll have to wait and see. We may be forced to make changes."

Offside' goal a mystery to Loew

GERMANY HAD no idea about the interpretation of the offside law that led to the first Dutch goal in their 3-0 win over Italy being awarded, coach Joachim Loew has said.

Uefa backed the match officials, saying they had correctly awarded Ruud van Nistelrooy's opening goal on Monday as Christian Panucci was playing him onside, despite the fact the Italian defender was off the pitch at the time.

"I knew nothing about it, Loew told a news conference when asked about the goal, which appeared to many observers at the time to be clearly offside.

"The players talked about it and so did the coaches. We all wondered what you could do in a situation like this.

"We know that a player can't deliberately leave the field to avoid being offside but when he's knocked from the field, and it's unintentional, that's different. I was very surprised by the interpretation of the rule."

TV figures put smile on Uefa's faces

TELEVISION VIEWING figures for the first eight matches of the European Championship were "absolutely extraordinary" according to Uefa.

Figures of 80 per cent or more of the market share of viewers - those people watching TV while the match was being played - were recorded in Portugal and the Netherlands.

Viewing figures generally across Europe of "neutral matches" were also impressively high, illustrated by the 14.9 million viewers in Germany who watched the match between the Netherlands and Italy.

That reflected 49.9 per cent of the TV audience, higher than any neutral match watched in the group stage of Euro 2004 according to UEFA figures.

The only territories where the figures bucked the trend were England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, who all failed to qualify for the finals.