Articles tagged with "england"
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
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Jun 23rd, 2009
Stuart Pearce is a brave man.
England U-21s won their first two group games (vs Finland and Spain) but still needed a result against Germany to ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Jun 21st, 2009
Sitting back in a swivel chair for a Sky Sports interview, Fabio Capello revealed one of the secrets behind his near-miraculous turnaround of this England ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Jun 21st, 2009
On second thoughts that headline might be overstating things a wee bit. Derbyshire has six goals in 13 Under 21 caps, but he's 23 now ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Jun 15th, 2009
England Under 21s got off to a great start at the Under-21 Euros by beating Finland 2-1 with ten men. Nine and a half minutes ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Jun 12th, 2009
The short answer is: No. The long answer is: No, at time of writing we haven't, so stop asking.
But we're very very close. With seven ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Jun 10th, 2009
Despite the London Transport strike, nearly 58,000 were at Wembley to see England put six past Andorra.
Unlike vs Kazakhstan, this game had the performance as ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Jun 10th, 2009
It's the big one! The game we've all been waiting for! What's that? Oh.
OK, so it's vs the international minnows of Andorra and they'll almost ...
Posted on: Ukraine World Cup Team Blog by yevy | Jun 9th, 2009
Ukraine can pull level on points with Croatia on Wednesday by beating visiting Kazakhstan at Dynamo Kyiv's Lobanovsky Stadium. The national team has never ...
Posted on: Ukraine World Cup Team Blog by yevy | Jun 7th, 2009
The clash between Ukraine and Croatia had all the makings of a heavyweight prizefight. The visitors were stunned early, but bounced off the ropes ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Jun 6th, 2009
Video via 101GG
Here's the video of England's 4-0 win over Kazakshtan today, with goals from Gareth Barry, Emile Heskey, Wayne Rooney and Frank Lampard.
Not ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Jun 6th, 2009
Rob and myself will be LiveBlogging the game from about 30 minutes before kickoff.
Kazakhstan vs England WCQ LiveBlog
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Jun 5th, 2009
It's Kazakhstan vs England tomorrow (Saturday). Not the toughest game in the world, but won't be a walkover either. Kickoff is 9pm in Kazakhstan, 4pm ...
Posted on: Ukraine World Cup Team Blog by yevy | Jun 4th, 2009
It would be difficult to overstate the importance of Saturday's World Cup qualifier between Croatia and Ukraine. The teams are in direct competition for ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Jun 4th, 2009
Fabio Capello has killed three birds with one tactical stone. The dead birds (I've just realized what a brutal analogy killing birds with stones is, ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Jun 3rd, 2009
I knew it was too good to be true. When Capello named his 24 last week, only David James and Stewart Downing were missing through ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | May 29th, 2009
The great 2012 Olympics debate has finally been settled. Or at least very nearly. You may recall that the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish FAs ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | May 25th, 2009
With the Premier League season done and dusted, Fabio Capello has named the 24 men he needs to beat Kazakhstan and Andorra. The one surprise ...
Posted on: Australia World Cup Team Blog by Pat | May 21st, 2009
Here’s an interesting article from The World Game site regarding the World Cup bidders. It summarises the assessment of each bidder by a company called ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by chris | May 20th, 2009
No, that's not a face paint representation of the Prem's nationalities - it's David Beckham launching England's bid for World Cup 2018 this past Monday. ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | May 19th, 2009
According to the AFP, we have an England goalkeeper crisis on our hands. But if David James having shoulder surgery is what passes for a ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | May 15th, 2009
Remember this? If not, then you're lucky because it was absolutely heartbreaking.
We went all the way to the semi-final at World Cup 1990, only to ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | May 6th, 2009
Tip of that hat to The Beautiful Game for finding this little gem.
Apparently 114 fans in Basildon watched England's 2-1 win over Ukraine in a ...
