On England…
“Wake up. You didn’t lose the game because of the tactics. We’re simply a better team. I admire your team and your players but my team is a much better team.” That is what the Croat manager had to say after the game at Wembley. Not only has he used the word ‘team’ four times…
England Fail to Qualify for Euro 2008
[Editor's note: for a minute-by-minute live blog report of the England-Croatia game, see this post] One word: Nightmare. On the night of the most important games for England in recent years they bottled it. A gutless and nervy performance from every player. They gave it away all throughout the game and constantly played long balls up-field to…
Transfer Roundup: Tottenham, Liverpool, Manchester United, Arsenal, Newcastle United, Manchester City, Celtic, Portsmouth
A new day means new transfer news and rumours. Several clubs have been linked with several players today, as detailed below.
England 2-3 Croatia, England not going to Euro 2008
Watch England v Croatia live online. England 2-3 Croatia – and England are now out of Euro 2008. Full-Time Report: The dissection can be spared for tomorrow morning (honestly, nothing new to be said, England haven’t learned from their mistakes). Croatia, to a man, played well and did their job. England had Richards, Lescott and…
Euro 2008 Qualifying – 4 Spots Remaining in Wednesday’s Final Round Matches
Another 6 countries secured their places at Euro 2008 on Saturday night, with Leo Beenhakker’s Poland possibly celebrating the loudest after their 2-0 defeat of Belgium qualified for the first time to a Euro championship. World champions Italy, Netherlands and Spain all progressed with victories while Croatia, beaten by Macedonia, advanced thanks to Russia’s defeat…
Ronaldinho to Chelsea?
One of the wildest rumours circling football at the moment is Ronaldinho heading to Chelsea come January. The Brazilian has not been enjoying his best of seasons this year and claims suggest that Roman Abramovich is ready to dig deep into that bulging wallet of his to entice him to London.
Bizarre Love Triangle: The Politics of International Football
I had initially anticipated that my next 3 articles, which are in the pipeline, would concern something completely different to the slightly dubious nature that this one takes on. However, by complete co-incidence an issue has come to my attention that I felt must be written about, if only to gauge the thoughts of the…
Are Foreigners England’s Problem?
It’s impossible that the head of world football can say so many stupid things about the state of football and what we can do to improve different aspects of the beautiful game. There are some weird and wonderful rules implemented to football in the 9 years that Joseph Blatter has been FIFA President. For example…
Transfer Roundup: Tottenham, Chelsea, Manchester United, Manchester City, Juventus, Middlesbrough, Real Madrid, Inter Milan
The rumour mill continues to work overtime in the latest transfer news. It seems like January is going to be a busy month for most clubs.
SquadGod – Monthly Games
SquadGod.com a.k.a one of Soccerlens’s advertising partners and also the ultimate fantasy football site, today added a monthly game option to its existing gameplay formats. SquadGod advertises itself as the only fully customisable fantasy football game available, and now lets players and fantasy managers set-up games running in a monthly format, allowing players to field…
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