From Diamond To Swoosh: England Sever Their Umbro Ties
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Posts Tagged: "England"
England At Euro 2012: A “Neutral” Speaks
Eamon Dunphy got it right. The “outspoken” pundit for Irish state television (RTE) said on Saturday night that “England won’t score, they have no creative players…it’ll go to penalties and...
Hopes, Dreams & Reality: On England At Euro 2012
The St George flags will be hanging limply this afternoon. It was after midnight in Kiev last night when the final kick hit the back of the net and confirmed...
Euro 2012: The Quarter-Finals – England 0-0 Italy (Italy Win 4-2 On Penalty Kicks)
So, then, to Kiev and to the quarter-finals of the European Championships. It’s the final match of the round this evening, featuring an Italian side that is something of a...
Euro 2012: Group D – The Final Day
The phrase “you make your own luck” is an overused one and it is perfectly possible to argue that luck, by its very nature, is random. There can be little...
The Realignment Of Great Expectations: On England In Ukraine
When England take to the field in Kiev this evening to play Ukraine in their final group match at this years European Championships, the task ahead of them will be...
Valour! Honour! Scott Parker! The Wing Commander Writes On England vs Sweden
Regular – or indeed occasional – readers of the When Saturday Comes magazine forum will probably already be aware of the writings of the Wing Commander, the last living remnant...
Euro 2012: England 3-2 Sweden
There was a point yesterday when it seemed as if history was deemed to repeat itself yet again. As Olof Mellbergs second goal-ward shot on goal made Joe Harts net...
For The King, The Empire And John Terry: The Wing Commander Writes On England Vs France
Regular – or indeed occasional – readers of the When Saturday Comes magazine forum will probably already be aware of the writings of the Wing Commander, the last living remnant...
The Calm Before The England Storm
If this summers European Championships have felt a little unusual so far, with the rain and the old school hooliganism and all – Fighting stewards inside a ground! How quaint!...
Euro 2012: The Runners & Riders – England
Perfidious Albion. The pantomime villains of international football. The team that everybody loves to hate. This year, however, it had been starting to look as if England might have had...
Euro Moments: England
This mornings Euro Moment comes from England, and features midfielder Stewart Downing standing in a glass box. It may just be for the best that he stays in there. This...
Injuries & Discord: Business As Usual For England
Early on Saturday evening, Roy Hodgsons plucky bunch of underdogs ground out their second single goal warm-up win, this time against Belgium. A win is a win, and anybody taking...
Impossible To Love, Questionable Inclusions & The Fluidity Of Porridge: Business As Usual For England
So there it is, then. The provisional England squad for the 2012 European Championships. On what was at the time a slow news day, this was always likely to provoke...
Premature Rejection: The Fourth Estate And Roy Hodgson
Once the announcement had been made, they acted with admirable speed. It took just two days from an announcement appearing on the Football Association’s website on Sunday afternoon for an...
Roy Hodgson… England Manager?
The timing was just right for tomorrow morning’s newspapers, but the name isn’t the one that most had expected to see at the top of their short-list. Earlier this evening,...
European Championship Stories: 1996 – A Whole New Ball Game
It almost goes without saying that the near-death – and very much beyond – experiences suffered by English football during the 1980s shaped the game that we watch today. There...
Hope & Despair, Or, Why Stuart Pearce Cannot Succeed As The England Manager
Amid all the bluster about Englands match against the Netherlands last night (a match already being described by some as “That Thing That Happened At Wembley”), Mark Critchley thinks that...
Scott Parker Versus The World
We live in polarised times. Rather than opening people up to new worlds and new experiences, the internet has allowed us to retreat into tiny enclaves of people who feel...
European Championship Stories: 1980 – The Decline & Fall Of English Football
On the twelfth of June 1980, England played Belgium in the finals of the European Championships – their first match in the finals of a major tournament for ten years....