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Follows the England national football team around the world and contains all news covering their matches and issues. If you’re looking for coverage of England’s passage through the international tournaments, you’ve come to the right place.
Also includes coverage of England managers (past and present) such as Sven Goran Eriksson, Steve McClaren and Fabio Capello, as well as England players David Beckham and Wayne Rooney. Also see: England’s 2010 World Cup qualifying fixtures.
Back in the days when Kevin Keegan ruled the world
Stuart Fuller, from the blog The Ball is Round goes back to the end of the 1970′s for an international at Wembley Stadium. I am a difficult person to buy things for at Christmas. And to make matters worse my birthday is just 12 days later. But this year I had a few nice surprises,…
Football in 1979
I am a difficult person to buy things for at Christmas. And to make matters worse my birthday is just 12 days later. But this year I had a few nice surprises, one of which was a selection of England programmes from yesteryear. So let me take you back to October 1979 for England’s European…
England’s World Cup Chances: 23 into 11 Doesn’t Go
For the mathematicians out there you’ll instantly recognise the numbers 11 and 23 as ‘prime numbers’, meaning of course that they are only divisible by themselves and 1. For the football fans out there you will recognise 11 as the number of players you can have on the pitch at any one time and 23…
Manchester United v Leeds: Crossing the Great Divide
One of the greatest rivalries in English football is revived this weekend after several years in the wilderness, as a Leeds team, flying high at the top of League 1, travel to Old Trafford in the FA Cup 3rd round…..reigniting a rivalry as bitter as any in English football. It’s hard to better the Man…
Jermain Defoe is Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
Rudolph, you loveable reindeer, you. No list of Christmas characters would be complete without a mention of Rudolph and it was slightly tricky picking who would represent him in this list. None of Santa’s other reindeer (all playing monopoly) take a liking to Rudolph because of his rosy nose, but Santa (in his underwear of course) picks…
Steven Gerrard’s best dives
“If I ever saw one of my team-mates diving, I’d definitely have a word” “I don’t think there is anything worse than a player diving. It does ruin the game.” “Players like Ronaldo and Carvalho are ruining the game.” These are some of the quote from Steven Gerrard (Liverpool, England) that I found on the…
Jermaine Defoe – the Goalmachine
An excellent video compilation for Tottenham and England striker Jermaine Defoe, made by the talented CFC8Scott – you can see more of his videos here.
If Capello wants Defoe as super-sub, why not use Owen?
Michael Owen once again demonstrated class is permanent in his clinical performance away at Wolfsburg. Three well taken goals will have no doubt helped stake his claim for a regular place in the United line-up and will have done his confidence a world of good. Seeing Owen in that form was like rolling the years…
The Friday Five: Footballing Heartbreakers
In the wake of Ireland’s heartbreaking aggregate defeat to France, where Thierry Henry’s handballed assist for William Gallas to score an equaliser in extra time denied a team who had performed magnificently to haul themselves level, we pay tribute to five of the greatest footballing heartbreakers in recent memory. We start off, perhaps predictably, with…
Soccerlens TV: World Cup playoffs Preview and the answers to England’s problems
Join celebrated football pundit, author, radio show host and DJ Andy Brassell every Monday on the Soccerlens Show. England’s second-string lost to Brazil on Saturday in Doha, an event that was expected but led to the expected round of national team bashing by the English press. There was a lot of criticism but very little…
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