Soccer-Euro 2008 organisers turn blind eye and celebrate on high

"You get pretty dizzy if you make too many quick turns," agreed former Denmark midfielder Michael Laudrup. "If it had been a 90-minute match I'm not sure what would have happened."

Tournament organisers said they were well on track to host the 2008 event with Kallen telling Reuters on Thursday that his team were ahead of previous championships at the same stage.

Four of the eight stadiums, in Vienna, Bern, Basel and Geneva, are already complete or in need of only minor modifications, while the remaining four, in Zurich, Innsbruck, Salzburg and Klagenfurt, are due to be finished by September.