Articles tagged with "england"
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Mar 16th, 2006
"War jokes are irresistible because Germans don't find them remotely funny, and there is something deliciously British about making a joke about people who don't ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Mar 16th, 2006
Most of us heading to Germany this summer can look forward to spending a few nights sleeping on trains or in rank little hotels charging ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 16th, 2006
Hee, hee, hee!!!
Apparently Iran, along with USA and England, are security risk for the German organizers!
Okay, it may be for different reasons but nonetheless I ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Mar 15th, 2006
Two months to final team selection, and Sven is worried about the fitness of Sol Campbell, Ashley Cole and Lil' Mick Owen. Especially Lil' ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Mar 15th, 2006
Sir Trevor Brooking, Football Association director of football development, says of England's football-playing youth, "our teenage hopefuls are a long way behind the technical skills ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Mar 15th, 2006
Three Middlesborough fans stabbed in Rome on eve of UEFA Cup replay.
And a hearty buongiorno to you, too!
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Mar 15th, 2006
Guardian columnist Simon Hattenstone sees things my way, opining that the list of English managers being tipped for Sven's job is a second-rate bunch.
(BTW, "Ip ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Mar 14th, 2006
There is some interesting banter today going on over on the always lively Argentina blog about comparisons being made between Argentina's Lionel Messi and England's ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Mar 14th, 2006
"For too long now, European football authorities have not taken the problem of racism in the game seriously and refuse to acknowledge how widespread the ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Mar 14th, 2006
Item: Arsenal not interested in Beckham
Item decoded: Like I said, fair-haired boys don't cut it with Wenger. He's a brunette man.
Item: ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Mar 13th, 2006
We were all excited when we came across this article about England's Frank Lampard's video diaries until we actually saw them. Filmed as part ...
Posted on: Argentina World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Mar 13th, 2006
Juan Roman Riquelme is like me in that he thinks that Lionel Messi is going to have a huge World Cup and that he is ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Mar 13th, 2006
Stuart Pearce: "England is not a distraction for me, I don't take a great deal of interest in it." As this attitude ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Mar 11th, 2006
Item: The FA confirm having interviewed Alan Curbishley for the England job.
Item decoded: Sussing out the competition in both Europe and the larger ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Mar 11th, 2006
A scandal is brewing in Bolton. Big Sam Allardyce has a son, Craig, who's a player's agent and may have violated protocol -- if ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Mar 11th, 2006
Wayne Bridge's ankle, injured in the Uruguay friendly, seems better for the moment.
Michael Owen should take a lesson in recovering from injury from this, but ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Mar 10th, 2006
That's right, says Robinson's Tottenham manager Martin Jol: England's man between the sticks is one of the best on the planet.
On Saturday, as it happens, ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Mar 10th, 2006
There's a nice catfight brewing between Alan Pardew, the West Ham gaffer, who says of Arsenal that "It's important that top clubs don't lose sight ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Mar 10th, 2006
Lemme get this straight: HarperCollins (owned by Rupert Murdoch, who owns Sky and Fox and once wanted to buy ManU) is gonna give Wayne ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Mar 10th, 2006
Spanning the blog to bring you the constant variety of posts...
Attn: Saudi coach, please click here (Saudi blog)
Argentina's injury curse (Argentina blog)
What would make Angola ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Mar 10th, 2006
The FA has enough of a job on its hands hiring just one new manager, thank you: There will be no 'dream team' of ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Mar 10th, 2006
My question is, Why would anyone want to flash a Nazi salute at a football match?
Anyone besides this guy, I mean.
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Mar 10th, 2006
Take a normal young lad who just plays football, give him a pen and an advance of £5 million, and the result is five volumes ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Mar 9th, 2006
You came here to read about the World Cup so here is some of today's hard hitting (sort of) news (sort of).
Togo or not Togo: ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Mar 9th, 2006
If the situation on the front line vexes us because of the paucity of first-class choices, England's midfield is hard to choose because there is ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Mar 9th, 2006
As of this very minute, Michael Owen's getting healthy.
Tune in after supper to see if he's stuck a fork in his eye or anything.
(I get ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Mar 9th, 2006
Never mind that he's a mean old bastard and the game and life have changed immeasurably since 1966, Jack Charlton has quite a few thoughts ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Mar 9th, 2006
So the last English team left in the Champions League is Arsenal, and nothing could be better for the Three Lions.
With Chelsea and Liverpool bowing ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Mar 9th, 2006
We don't know if England have what it take to walk away with the World Cup this summer, but if the Three Lions play anything ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Mar 8th, 2006
What could be hotter than a story about a footballer, gay sex and a ginormous web search engine?
Nothing.
