Following a shameful third-place finish last season and an underwhelming start to this season’s Super Lig campaign, the Galatasaray hierarchy have decided to draw a decisive line under coach Frank Rijkaard‘s ill-fated 16 months in charge today. A statement released … Read More→
Along with risking salmonella from the matchday catering, a jaunty acceptance of xenophobia and the now-annual day-shift prostitute scandals, the boring old 4-4-2 formation is a staple of the English game. It’s rigid uniformity and lack of extraneous bells-and-whistles hark … Read More→
Both England and Montenegro saw their flawless winning starts to their respective Euro 2012 qualifying campaigns ended at Wembley last night, with a resolutely sterile stalemate ensuring that neither side deserved to leave with the spoils. England dominated possession but, … Read More→
The Euro 2012 Qualifier between Italy and Serbia was to be played in Genoa, Italy. Since the Serbian fans arrived in Genoa, they had been causing trouble for the police and it only got worse when the game started. The … Read More→
The Euro 2012 qualifier between Italy and Serbia had to be abandoned after just six minutes following crowd trouble in Genoa. The game in actual fact been postponed for thirty-five minutes prior to kick off as trouble mounted in the … Read More→
Serbia crashed to their first ever home defeat since becoming a indepedent football nation four years ago, losing 3-1 to Estonia in a European qualifier on Friday night. In five months the team have gone from world cup outsiders to … Read More→
Despite being declared quite literally unfit to captain Manchester United a couple of weeks back, Rio Ferdinand has confirmed that he will be resuming his duties at international level when England take on Montenegro in their Euro 2012 Qualifying campaign … Read More→
Montenegro boss Zlatko Kranjcar (Niko’s father) has said that England should consider themselves to have already qualified for Poland and Ukraine. Read More→
Let’s think back to the 2010 FIFA World Cup Finals. It was a time when French international football had seemingly reached an impasse. The world looked on in consternation as the French national team ignominiously imploded before their very eyes … Read More→
The Azzurri were on Friday nnight held to their first draw of Prandelli’s tenure at Windsor Park, a venue where both England and Spain have lost in recent times and Italy had lost and drawn their previous games. It failed … Read More→
I must admit that there was a time, not so very long ago, when I used to feel a creeping sense of boredom during international breaks. In my heart of hearts I knew that I should be grateful for the … Read More→
Turkey failed to secure the top spot of the Group A encounter as they fell 3-0 to the Germans. Guus Hiddink just couldn’t inspire the Turks to score. Jaochim Low and his young and efficient squad were too good for … Read More→
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