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Features news coverage of Germany and its players, including match reports and general football news.
So who is accountable for England’s mess?
Who has the best league in the world? Many will say the Premier League. Sky Sports will ram slo-mo 3D HD clips down our throat until the cows come home but we should be looking to our victors last night for the business model that works for all parties. Fans gets to see their teams in stadiums designed with them in mind and prices that would make some Blue Square Conference teams blush, they get to see attacking football played by players who have been given the opportunity to develop through their youth systems. TV games are rigidly structured in advance so that every one knows who is playing when and the media knows when to start and stop building the hype and intruding.
World Cup News: Don’t Blame Jermain Defoe, He Wasn’t There!
Good morning my dears, and welcome to the daily World Cup column on Soccerlens. No action to report. STOP. Please send biscuits. STOP Here’s your round-up of all the World Cup-related goings-on this fine morrow… (If you would like to subscribe to this column – and others like it on Soccerlens – then please feel…
TFT Episode 56: Did England and USA deserve better?
World Cup 2010 is down to its last eight teams and it’s time for a period of reflection for the national team set-ups in both [...]
German U21 stars outshine England’s ‘Golden Generation’
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 German teams of the past. They were regarded as a team in transition rather than…
World Cup Podcast: A painful England post mortem
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 after their lame exit from the finals at the hands of Germany yesterday. Argentina, Brazil,…
World Cup News: England Lost, But At Least Gabriel Heinze Got Clocked!
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 they whimpered out of the World Cup has angered an awful lot of people –…
Puma Tekkies World Cup Sneakers
After writing about the Adidas Kick TR shoes, the world-cup themed sneakers from Adidas, I’ve found something even cooler for you sneaker freaks out there! The Puma Tekkies are a series of football themed shoes, which attempt to portray world cup participant countries creatively on something you can take with you every day. They are…
Germany 4-1 England – Video Highlights
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 when England was dreaming that they are going to repeat their triumph of 1966. Those…
World Cup News: FIFA Introduce Synchronised Refereeing?
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 – then please feel free to follow this link, or you can also just enter your…
World Cup News: ‘Der Kaiser’ Takes It All Beck(enbauer)!
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 some unrelenting do-or-die hyper-tense knock-out football after having to sit through some shamelessly awful ‘let’s…
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