The Odd Contradiction Of The England Captaincy
There is a sense of foreboding in the air in England, ahead of Saturday’s European Championship qualifying match against Wales in Cardiff. It’s not a sense of fear – the...
Posts Tagged: "England"
The BBC Will Be Right To Show The World Jack Warner On Panorama
A couple of years ago, it felt as if. in some ways, there was something inevitable about England winning the race to host the 2018 World Cup finals. Since then,...
FIFA, The FA and The British Press: No-one Really Wins The Moral Debate
“Please accept my resignation. I wouldn’t belong to a club that would accept me as a member”, said the telegram that Groucho Marx in his famous telegram to the Friar’s...
Match Of The Midweek: England 0-0 Montenegro
In all honesty, the excitement that surrounding England’s two opening wins against Bulgaria and Switzerland passed very quickly indeed. The post-South Africa combination of jitters and lethargy seems to be...
Match Of The Midweek: Switzerland 1-3 England
Two games, six points and seven goals. On the pitch, at least, it is starting to feel worryingly as if this summer’s meltdown in South Africa never happened for England....
Fabio Capello & The Tabloid Pack Mentality: Fatuous Expectation And Poisonous Condemnation
So it is that the love affair between the British press and the Italian comes to an end. England’s friendly match against Hungary last week was what it was –...
The England Obituary, Part Five: A View From North of the Border
In the last of our responses to England's World Cup campaign, Gavin Saxton presents a view of the campaign as seen from Scotland, and is less than impressed by the...
The England Obituary, Part Four: Where Do We Go From Here?
In the fourth part of our look at England’s elimination, Rob Freeman suggests that perhaps we don’t need a post mortem of this team’s so-called failure, and suggests that England...
The England Obituary, Part 3: “Ha Ha Ha!”, Or “Bloody Hell!”?
In the third part of our brief series on England at the 2010 World Cup, Mark Murphy reports on his four-yearly bout of schadenfreude and how England at least managed...
The England Obituary, Part Two: What The Papers Said (And Didn’t Say)
As some of you may have noticed, England were knocked out of the weekend in just about the most emphatic way possible last weekend. Over the next couple of days,...
The England Obituary, Part 1: Do England Need An English Manager?
To fill the void caused by the World Cup rest days before the quarter-finals (I've never fully worked out if the rest is for us or them), over the next...
World Cup 2010: Germany 4-1 England
There have been times over the previous four or five days or so that this afternoon’s match between Germany and England has threatened to collapse under the weight of its...
Trying To Make Some Sense Of Germany vs England
Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right. Being English during the World Cup finals really does feel like being “stuck in the middle with you”, to labour...
World Cup 2010: Slovenia 0-1 England
I think it’s fair to say that the introduction’s already on site, so I’ll just go straight into the game. England line up as a 4-4-2, with Gerrard on the...
England v Slovenia Preview: Was it Capello’s Fault Against Algeria?
Many words have been written in many places concerning the England performance against Algeria on Friday. So many were written in the heat of the moment, without reflection and analysis....
John Terry & English Expectations
On Friday night in Cape Town, the England 2010 World Cup team played as if they had passed into the spirit world. All but invisible, they made an absolute mockery...
World Cup 2010: England 0-0 Algeria
It would appear that Wayne Rooney is of the opinion that the England football team (and, especially upon this evening, his performance in particular) is worthy of the undying support...
World Cup 2010: England 1-1 USA
Okay, let's get it out the way first up: Robert Green. He had only one save to make in that first half, when Clint Dempsey hit - or in truth...
England: The Auld Enemy?
It's been brought to my attention that there's something called a World Cup starting later this week and that I might want to start writing about it. I've got to...
World Cup Tales: Reflections Upon England In Italy, 1990
The concept of England having a high level of expectation at the time of a World Cup finals is a comparatively recent one. As recently as 1990, most adults could...