How Ben Foster Highlights The Farce Of The Loan System
Ben Foster has made news today by becoming the first player to openly criticise the Manchester United fans’ Green and Gold campaign to oust the Glazer family. However, something more...
Posts Tagged: "England"
The Mail On Sunday Could Cost England The 2018 World Cup
This morning, Mark Murphy drew some conclusions about the benign influence of the Premier League in the fall of Lord Triesman from the FA. Ian King, however, feels that the...
World Cup Tales: The Miracle Of Belo Horizonte, 1950
When the draw for the 2010 World Cup finals was made in December of last year, the British press went into a depressingly familiar mode in their dismissal of their...
World Cup Preview: Group C
The 2010 FIFA World Cup kicks off in six weeks today, close enough that you can start to hear the vuvuzelas. Continuing his preview of this summer (winter)'s events,...
The Beckham Fairytale Stalls Before “Happily Ever After”
It is a small piece of received wisdom that when a major sporting event ends, there is a small power surge as millions of homes put the kettle on in...
The World Cup Of National Anthems (Part Two)
For many people, major sports tournaments are the only occasion that national anthems are heard. These peculiar tunes have become a genre of their own, transcending the mere hymns that...
Who Has Been Bugging England, Then?
To anyone that has been following the modus operandi of the British gutter press for the last few years or so, the news that the England hotel at The Grove...
Match Of The Week: England 3-1 Egypt
Roll up, roll up. It's the biggest circus in town. This year, without a single ball having been kicked, hasn't been a terribly successfully one for England so far and,...
Wayne Bridge, Tabloid Fluff & The World Cup
Wayne Bridge probably won't be going to the World Cup finals, then, but John Terry's "friends" leaking derogatory comments to the press about him say more about Terry than they...
A Final Word On John Terry
In some respects, the furore surround the John Terry affair (for the want of a better phrase) says as much about the British and their attitudes as it does about...
The John Terry Moral Conundrum
The tabloid circus seems likely to continue to run for a few more days at least. Meanwhile, the rest of us look on at it all and shake our heads....
Battle For Control Of Watford
Watford Football Club is at the point of falling victim to a vicious power struggle that is now threatening its very existence. Can the protagonists be persuaded back from the...
The England World Cup Madness Starts… Here & Over There
The hype machine will run into overdrive over the next few months or so and there is nothing that anyone can do about it, apart from gently remind the watching...
Match Of The Midweek: England 3-0 Belarus
England completed their World Cup qualifying group matches with a workmanlike win against Belarus this evening, and even though Peter Crouch scored twice for the home side, the real star...
Damp Squibs, Live Squibs & Strictly Come Dancing
Live only on the internet with the fact that highlights were being shown being announced by Bruce Forsyth in the middle of "Strictly Come Dancing", Ukraine vs England was a...
Pay Through The Nose Per View
When Ukraine play England in the World Cup qualifiers, will anybody be watching? With it costing up to £11.99 and the match being largely meaningless for England it seems unlikely,...
Football On The Internet… But Nowhere Else?
The World Cup qualifier between Ukraine and England is going to be broadcast, but it seems likely that it will only be available over the internet, and to those with...
Match Of The Week III: England 2-6 Germany
“Football is a simple game – you play for 120 minutes and then the Germans win on penalties”, as Gary Lineker once observed. Oh, for things to have been that...
Match Of The Midweek II: England 5-1 Croatia
When you have got the rub of the green, you have got the rub of the green. England’s job became fifty per cent easier before they even kicked off last...
England’s Greatest Hope?
England beat the Netherlands 2-1 on Sunday evening to move into the final of the 2009 European Women’s Football Championships in Finland, where they will play Germany on Sunday night....