Articles tagged with "England"
Posted on: Greece World Cup Blog by Peter Katsiris | Sep 9th, 2009
The many islands of Greece are an easy lure for many English tourists, but Stuart Pearce's U-21 might not be interested in returning to Greece ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Sep 9th, 2009
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 is a big big day for World Cup qualifying. Some teams will actually qualify. Some teams will be eliminated. And some ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Sep 7th, 2009
It's England vs Croatia on Wednesday. A win and we qualify for the World Cup. Simple as that, and definitely do-able.
But Croatia coach Slaven Bilić ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Sep 6th, 2009
Nothing too exciting about this 2-1 friendly win over Slovenia at Wembley.
Did Wayne Rooney dive to win the penalty for the first goal? He sort ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Sep 3rd, 2009
Twente has a first-time ever experience, when Oranje hosts Japan in the Grolsch Veste. The first ever international game in Enschede.
Especially for the game, the ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Sep 1st, 2009
The England squad for the following two games (both at home)
vs Slovenia, friendly, September 5th
vs Croatia, WCQ, September 9th
is as follows:
Squad: Foster (Manchester United), Green ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Aug 24th, 2009
Fabio Capello will be spend a lot of time watching English players in Premier League games between now and next summer. And I can only ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Aug 22nd, 2009
Michael Owen bagged his first Premier League goal for Man Utd today, coming off the bench to score the fourth of Utd's five against Wigan.
Nice ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Aug 19th, 2009
The documentary "Do I Not Like That - The Final Chapter" follows Graham Taylor, and his disastrous attempt to lead England through qualification to World ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Aug 18th, 2009
I think the answer might be yes. Or maybe no. I'm not sure.
After losing so many quality players and - for the most part - ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Aug 17th, 2009
Places in Fabio Capello's 23 man England World Cup squad are going to be tight. And I'm fascinated by those on the fringes, guys who ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Aug 12th, 2009
Bit of a weird game. We looked decent going forward, but made two absolutely woeful errors in defence. First Rio Ferdinand gave the ball away, ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Aug 12th, 2009
No LiveBlog for this one, but here's the England starting XI:
Robert Green; Glen Johnson, Rio Ferdinand, John Terry, Ashley Cole; David Beckham, Frank Lampard, Gareth ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Aug 12th, 2009
Both the Dutch and the English national team have won all seven games in their WC qualifications. Still, it's a question whether the friendly in ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Aug 11th, 2009
Oh, happy days. The is from the Euro '96 group game, when England beat a fractured Netherlands team 4-1 at Wembley.
You know things are looking ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Aug 11th, 2009
Steven Gerrard has pulled out of the England squad with a groin injury, so won't be playing against the Netherlands tomorrow. Don't be surprised if ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Aug 10th, 2009
He's only 17, and so far he's only made one Premier League appearance for Arsenal. But I'm already hoping that Jack Wilshere makes the England ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Aug 7th, 2009
Oranje's football season starts with a friendly against England coming Wednesday and will end with the WC in South Africa.
Despite Oranje's swift qualifications for the ...
Posted on: Scotland World Cup Team Blog by Ian Rose | Aug 1st, 2009
Ever heard of the Nordic Cup? Truth be told, neither have I. I will be the first to admit that, while I think ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Rob | Jul 31st, 2009
Sir Bobby Robson has died aged 76 after losing a fight with cancer. The former England manager had looked genuinely frail in recent times, especially ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Rob | Jul 20th, 2009
So, right now former England captain David Beckham is not exactly the most popular man in America. After his spell in Europe (at the behest ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Jul 15th, 2009
I'm going to ignore what happened in the rest of this game, because a) I've already covered David Beckham's petulant streak once this week and ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Jul 3rd, 2009
Seems like forever since Michael Owen was an England regular. These days, when I pick the team in my head (I spend a lot of ...
Posted on: Australia World Cup Team Blog by Pat | Jul 3rd, 2009
The Socceroos have rocketed into the top 20 in the latest FIFA rankings. A successful end to our World Cup campaign, including wins over Bahrain ...
Posted on: Germany World Cup Blog Blog by Jan | Jun 30th, 2009
Before wrapping up the whole tournament again, factoring in the final as Nick suggested in the comments, it's time for me to collect a few ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by chris | Jun 30th, 2009
Last year was a rough one for Germany. They lost the final to Spain on a Phil Lahm faux pas and then proceeded to send ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Jun 29th, 2009
Yep, the U-21s lost the Euro 2009 final 4-0 to Germany in Malmo.
Not a very impressive performance, and all we can do is wonder what ...
Posted on: Germany World Cup Blog Blog by Jan | Jun 29th, 2009
Passing accuracy was still lacking, especially in the first half, but we didn't expect that to magically change in a couple of days. Predictably England ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Jun 28th, 2009
What a semi-final. We were 3-0 up at half-time thanks to Martin Cranie, Nedum Onuoha and a Swedish OG. Game over? Apaprently not.
Sweden came back ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by chris | Jun 26th, 2009
UEFA U-21 Semifinals
