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ITV announced last week it had agreed a deal with Setanta to broadcast highlights of all of England’s remaining World Cup 2010 away qualifying matches.
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I can’t help but think that the Guardian’s Rob Smyth said it best the other day when he blamed overly-high expectations for England on two things: the mass-marketed...
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For a manager who rarely witnesses the on-pitch misdemeanours of his own team, Arsene Wenger is never short of views on football’s bigger picture. Comrade Wenger has used his weekend off to good effect by bemoaning the break-up of communist countries...
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They say that history repeats itself. In England’s case, stupidity repeats itself, ad nauseam.
You could drive yourself insane hypothesizing how England will line up against Croatia (doesn’t matter if players lack discipline...
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Andorra coach David Rodrigo claims his side’s 0-2 defeat against England was a moral victory for the tiny country. While it was undoubtedly a better result for Andorra than England would have hoped for, it was a somewhat predictable outcome....
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It infuriates me when people are judged on their appearance. Just because Rafa Benitez is a tubby mess, this does not give opposing supporters the right to abuse him.
The Aston Villa supporters went well over the top with their ‘Fat Spanish...
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Football has gone crazy this week. Manchester City got rich and Robinho got signed, there was Alan Curbishley and Kevin Keegan’s decision to leave their posts, and the whole Dimitar Berbatov saga. What we need to settle things down is a return to...
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Do we have another match-fixing scandal on our hands?
In an interview published by German news magazine Der Spiegel on Monday, award-winning Canadian journalist Declan Hill gave accounts that detail the manipulation of Ghanaian matches in the...
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England play Andorra in Barcelona’s Olympic Stadium at 1900 BST on Saturday evening and then travel to Zagreb for their second qualifier against Croatia on Wednesday, 10 September at 2000 BST.
Players out with injury include Steven Gerrard,...
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Steven Gerrard will undergo groin surgery in a bid to have an injury-free season and will miss two league games and two England World Cup qualifiers in the process. How much will they miss him?
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Croatia’s coach Slaven Bilic announced a 22-man squad on Wednesday for their opening World Cup Group 6 qualifiers next month.
Croatia play two matches in Zagreb, hosting Kazakhstan on Sept. 6 and England four days later.
Goalkeepers
Stipe...
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The predictions are divided into 5 categories - the press, the players, the game, the teams and everyone else (fans, agents, management). You’re welcome to add your own predictions in the comments, discuss the predictions I’ve made or come...
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Paul Merson speaks to Soccerlens about England’s chances in 2010, Alan Shearer, and why any Germany game holds special memories for him.
Watching a 40-year-old Paul Merson take to the field a couple of months ago...
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Trevor Brooking thinks that the talent pool in England is so shallow that thinking about semi-finals is the stuff of fantasy - England players and fans...
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Hopefully you haven’t been ‘necklaced.’ In fact, if you are reading this, then you most certainly won’t have been. Necklacing is the horrendous act of placing a car tyre over a person’s body, dousing them with petrol and...
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Former Major League Baseball pitcher Anthony Young once lost a record 27 straight decisions before finally recording a win. The Buffalo Bills went to four straight Super Bowls - and lost each one. In 1986, Greg Norman led each of the four majors...
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Many would agree that allowing the hosts of a tournament free passage into the competition is simply an absurd policy. However, this policy seems to imbue the two major world soccer tournaments today – The World Cup and the European Championships...
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When it comes to the annals of English football history, it’s unlikely Steve McClaren’s tenure in the hotseat will get a particularly favourable write-up. Somewhat tactically naive, unable to motivate players, outclassed on occasions by...
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The parallels surrounding the United States Men’s National team are striking when you compare them to the same group in 2004.
As qualifying began, the US was ranked very highly in the FIFA World rankings, as high as fourth(!) in 2006, a few...
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A question on the SoccerLens Forum recently asked whether it would be harder for teams to win the European Football...
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England may be conspicuous by their absence in Euro 2008, Scotland and Northern Ireland may feel unlucky while Eire have retreated to lick their wounds but, out of all the home nations, the failure of Wales to travel to Austria and Switzerland hardly...
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With professional goalkeepers complaining about the new EURO 2008 ball, I feel like, as a member of the greatest union in football, I need to shed some...
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Jack Warner is the President of Concacaf, Vice-President of FIFA, and one of the sketchiest businessmen you could encounter. His questionable ethics when it pertains to advancing his own self-interest and that of Trinidad & Tobago are legendary....
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President Joseph “Sepp” Blatter of FIFA.
As a follow-up to my last article about the World Football Elo Ratings, Ahmed asked me to provide the top 50 teams...
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A study conducted by BBC revealed that only 170 English players started Premier League matches this past season. It was a six year low in terms of English Premier League starters which will disappoint the Premier League given that last year’s...
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England fans have not had much to smile about in recent times. The Three Lions have been playing below their capabilities for the past 18 years or so. Their one flourish? At Euro 2004, a certain boy named Wayne Rooney mesmerized every England fan with...
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Fabio Capello is still uncertain who will be his England captain, but Manchester United midfielder Owen Hargreaves has put in a good word for his teammate Rio Ferdinand, Sky Sports reports.
The central defender had captained England on the team’s...
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Earlier today, FIFA has announced that it will suspend Iraq’s national team from international competition for a year if it does not revert its decision to disband their football association. It was though Iraq had passed a government decree...
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Images courtesy of Goal4Africa.
Goal4Africa is a humanitarian initiative to mark two seminal events:
The 90th birthday of the Honorable Nelson Mandela, along with the upcoming World Cup 2010 in South Africa.
“The...
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