As likely evidenced by the fact you’ve just flicked to this page and audibly muttered, “Oh wow, yeah, Greece”, the memory of triumph at Euro 2004 is likely lodged in a very weird part of your brain. It absolutely did happen, of that you’re sure, but in the era before social media where every sporting happenstance wasn’t being endlessly shared, clipped, memed and remixed, you can’t recall it with any clarity.
All of the early noughties triumphs that involved major nations are clearly visible to you: Ronaldo’s silly haircut running riot for Brazil against Germany in 2002, Zinedine Zidane’s forehead attempting a living laryngoscopy on Marco Materazzi in 2006.