England

Morning all, and welcome to the daily World Cup column on Soccerlens. There’s a bit of a strange hush falling across the planet today, as we face the first football-less day in nearly three weeks – and I tell ya, …

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The past few days has seen players, managers, coaches, journalists, reporters and almost anybody with a television set give their views on why England produced such a disappointing World Cup campaign. This has normally brought negative views regarding previously worshipped …

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Leading into the World Cup, the German side were looked upon as an unknown quantity. A side without their talisman Michael Ballack and the investment in youth by Joachim Löw failed to fill many pundits with confidence they resembled great …

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Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp has made it painfully clear that he would be interested in taking the England manager’s job, should it become available at some point during the next couple of weeks. Speaking to TalkSPORT, Redknapp said; “The FA …

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Join Adrian Clarke & Iain Spragg on the latest edition of the pint-size Soccerlens World Cup Podcast. The duo do their best to analyse what went wrong for England and what the future holds for Fabio Capello and his boys …

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Top of the morning and welcome to the daily World Cup column on Soccerlens. You may have noticed that England did a ‘lose’ yesterday when they really should have done a ‘win’, and it seems that the manner in which …

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The world’s media were left with their jaws on the floor yesterday, when England’s press briefing (before their systematic dismantling at the hands of Germany) lasted barely five minutes – and featured a meagre amount of questions fielded only from …

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So to Shizuoka in 2002 and Gelsenkirchen in 2006 we must add Bloemfontein in 2010, as England’s golden generation now face up to the reality of another exit from a tournament. Whatever gold they were made of, it was probably …

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Germany 4-1 England 2010 FIFA World Cup 27 June 2010 Alas, history doesn’t always repeat itself. The “Golden Generation” of English football met the ruthlessly efficient Germans and it all ended in disaster… for England. It wasn’t too long ago …

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Guten morgen and willkommen to the daily World Cup column on Soccerlens. Three words: England…Germany…versus. Rearrange! Here’s this morning’s World Cup news round-up… (If you would like to subscribe to this column  – and others like it on Soccerlens – …

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Morning all, and welcome to the daily World Cup column on Soccerlens. Today sees the start of the World Cup proper, with the first (and second) of the last 16 ties taking place this afternoon. It’ll be good to see …

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Doddery old Franz Beckenbauer has apologised to England for comments he made in German daily Bild recently, in which he labelled Fabio Capello‘s side as both ‘stupid’ and ‘burnt-out’. A few weeks prior, the German legend also suggested that England …

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