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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.

Watch England U21 game against Macedonia live on FA website

The Football Association will broadcast the England Under-21′s European Championship qualifier against Macedonia on Friday for free. The match will be the first England game streamed live on the FA website and will start at 1945 BST. The contest will take place at Coventry’s Ricoh Arena. The FA says that “This is the best way…

England squad for Ukraine and Belarus (10th and 14th October 2009)

You can watch England v Ukraine live online here. Capello chose to leave Darren Bent – currently the top English scorer in the Premier League – out of his England squad for the final two World Cup qualifiers against Ukraine (away) and Belarus (home). Ben Foster misses out through an unspecified injury, while Walcott was…

Standing Up for Football

Standing Up for Football

We’ve all been there. It’s the last minute and your team is clinging on to a vital, undeserved win away from home. You stand and bellow support for your lads with their backs against the walls, frantically throwing themselves in front of every ball headed toward the goal to break your heart. Or stood on…

Arsene Wenger – Saviour of English football?

Arsene Wenger – Saviour of English football?

‘If in doubt, get it out!’ It’s a cry heard from many a parent and even coaches every weekend around the country at junior football games. It’s a cry that can sum up in a nutshell the attitude English football has carried for many years. And looking at some of England’s attempts to win major…

England qualify in style but let’s not assume the trophy’s coming home just yet

England qualify in style but let’s not assume the trophy’s coming home just yet

England qualifications are not used to happen this way. Where was the last-gasp heroic goal, the nervous, stuttering qualification that went down to the wire, the sharpening of knives for the manager? Where was the unconvincing qualification, overlooked as assorted players and journalists chest-thumped that, having qualified, England could go onto win it, fooling nobody…

Defoe or not Defoe – it’s not even a question

Defoe or not Defoe – it’s not even a question

Without wishing to pre-empt the entire article, Jermaine Defoe is a very good football player, not a world-class football player. There is much empirical evidence to substantiate this, but what is most striking is that he has never scored more than 13 Premier League goals in a season (a record topped by more players than…

A Massive World Cup Qualification Preview

A Massive World Cup Qualification Preview

Watch World Cup qualifiers live here. International press conferences at the best of times tend to be mundane, by the numbers affairs filled with platitudes by the key figures within the national side. Not much changes when it comes to conferences prior to World Cup qualifiers, or even the finals itself, but within the words…

England squad for Slovenia and Croatia games

England squad for Slovenia and Croatia games

Watch England v Croatia live here. The England squad for the international break (a friendly against Slovenia on Saturday, September 5 and the World Cup qualifier against Croatia on Wednesday, September 9) sees Rio Ferdinand, Theo Walcott and David James miss out due to injury while Peter Crouch, Wes Brown and Aaron Lennon return to…

10 for 2010: Ten Dark Horses for England’s World Cup Squad

Will Richards go to South Africa?

Watch live World Cup matches here. With less than a year to go until the World Cup, England are sitting pretty in their World Cup qualification group. With qualification all but assured, now attentions will turn to who could be in England’s plans for South Africa. English World Cup squads have a history of featuring…

Bobby Robson 1933 – 2009

Bobby Robson 1933 – 2009

Former England manager Sir Bobby Robson has died of cancer aged 76. He had been battling the disease in various forms since 1992. Robson will be best remembered for taking England to within a penalty-shoot out at the 1990 World Cup, but he also enjoyed success both domestically and with European clubs and had the…


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