Articles tagged with "England"
Posted on: South Korea World Cup Team Blog by Johnny | Apr 5th, 2006
There was a great article in GQ many years ago that commented on the fact that most of the big-name actors usually have about a ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Apr 4th, 2006
The FA have settled on "three or four" candidates for Sven's job, but they won't tell the Guardian who they are.
They haven't contactedme, in case ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Apr 4th, 2006
Continuing in their series of analyses of England players and potential players, the Beeb arrive at poor, snakebit Wayne Bridge.
Rightly, I think, they reckon he'd ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Apr 4th, 2006
Sven and the lads will get their training on at a swank resort in Portugal.
Does this mean Scolari, Figo, Carvalho, &ct. will train in Brighton?????
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Apr 4th, 2006
More news about Michael Owen's race to recovery and redemption.
First comes this story in which an England assistant analyzes Lil' Mick's chances for recovery ...
Posted on: South Korea World Cup Team Blog by Johnny | Apr 4th, 2006
Borrowing from the title of one of Willie Nelson's early '90s albums, I have to admit that the last World Cup (while the most vivid) ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Apr 3rd, 2006
Way back when -- on March 9th -- readers of this blog learned that the exit of Liverpool and Chelsea from the Champions League was ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Apr 3rd, 2006
Michael Owen admits that he had his doubts that he could make the squad for Germany considering his most recent surgery.
Hey, Little Buddy: It's ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Apr 3rd, 2006
You bet!
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Apr 2nd, 2006
Darius says he's ready, willing and able.
Whattayareckon?
I think we need his pace -- and particularly considering the fragility of Lil' Mick we could use his ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Apr 2nd, 2006
Is Sol Campbell back?
That's what he's saying.
(Is it too late to clone John Terry?)
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Apr 2nd, 2006
There will never be any end to the psychodrama that is the England defense.
Rio Ferdinand says that he has forgiven Sven for leaving him out ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Apr 2nd, 2006
It's all been pre-ordained here in the novel "Three Lions Roar" by Omut Ozturk.
I haven't had the pleasure of reading this particular work of literature, ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Apr 1st, 2006
You'll never guess whom Big Sam Allardyce thinks should be the next England manager.
It's shocking, really.
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Apr 1st, 2006
England's qualifiers for Euro 2008 will be played in Manchester.
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Apr 1st, 2006
Steven Gerrard wants to play the keystone position in England's midfield, which is where Sven usually slots Frank Lampard.
We could argue forever about which ...
Posted on: Portugal Euro 2008 Blog by Luis Paulo | Mar 31st, 2006
It’s starting to looks like a Mexican soap opera. The Portuguese Federation’s president Gilberto Madaíl shows his trust at Scolari’s words. Madaíl believes he is ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Mar 31st, 2006
The only English referee to be named to the pool of whistle-blowers in Germany is Graham Poll, about whom I have no particular opinion.
But I ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Mar 31st, 2006
Sir Alex Ferguson thinks Sam Allardyce would make a fine England manager.
This could all be gamesmanship on the eve of a Northwest derby that actually ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Mar 31st, 2006
It's not our fault, say the people you would reckon were responsible....
Stay tuned for the ugly tit-for-tat sure to follow....
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Mar 31st, 2006
Perhaps in 2012 we'll sit in the new national stadium and have a laugh about it all, but not today:
1) Wembley won't be ready this ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Mar 31st, 2006
Well, not all of them, anyhow, and not too much. According to this poll, their are actually some Scots and Welshmen pulling for ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Mar 31st, 2006
Ashley Cole is on the mend.
Posted on: Portugal Euro 2008 Blog by Luis Paulo | Mar 31st, 2006
In an interview aired last weekend at ESPN Brasil, Luiz Felipe Scolari talked about his future, his wishes to remain working in Europe and the ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Mar 30th, 2006
The Newcastle midfielder, who is often spoken about as a dark horse candidate for Sven's squad, might be suffering from glandular fever.
Can we say that ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Mar 30th, 2006
A month ago, I might not have reckoned that Darius Vassell could squeeze his way onto Sven's squad. But with Darren Bent's less-than-impressive showing ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Mar 30th, 2006
The England and Chelsea fullback has a hernia. Which I can only assume he developed by raising his hand repeatedly and trying to catch ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Mar 28th, 2006
So with the roof collapsing and the basement filling with sewage, the builders of the new Wembley have hit on a new way to speed ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Mar 27th, 2006
In news from the physio room:
1) Michael Owen declares that he will be 100% fit for Germany -- and then stuck a reporter's microphone in ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Mar 27th, 2006
So a particularly crude and ugly statement from Everton's Alan Stubbs puts a new question on the table:
Do non-English players -- in the Premiereship or ...
