Have the teams in the Euros been trying to make England…
…feel good about themselves? Opening games of tournaments have become increasingly cagey affairs, teams scared of getting off to a bad start, leading to some dire football and said teams ending up on...
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Was I watching Spurs…
…at the Euros? It felt just like watching Spurs in Gdansk last night, but it really was Germany versus Greece in the second quarter final. The similarities were all there. Team in white spend the first...
View ArticleMeet Roy Hodgson, is he the same as…
…the old boss? As I’ve posted here before I wanted Roy Hodgson to be the England boss. I’ve wanted it for years, since Glenn Hoddle was sacked. You know when they say be careful what you wish for… From...
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Didn’t have the courage of my…
…convictions. It’s just you can never write off the Germans and Jogi looked like he’d cracked it this time. But then he, them, it imploded, Mario style. But let me take you back, way, way, back – cue...
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The beautiful game…
…returns in time. As I posted the other day I fancied Italy to do something in the Euros, in a way I’m glad they didn’t go on to win it and not just because I didn’t have the courage to back ‘em. Well...
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How the BBC managed to make Cav’s disappointment…
…even worse to watch. That second to last box wasn’t ticked in London then. It was excruciating watching Great Britain – no Team GB here – being thwarted by their own success in the men’s road race on...
View ArticleAnother unworthy member of the 100 caps…
…for England brigade. Steven Gerrard will lead out England tonight in Sweden in the process making his 100th appearance for the country. It’ll be met, as it has done already, with platitudes and...
View ArticleStuart Pearce had to go but it certainly wasn’t…
…all his fault. He did a pretty good job for a tactically limited manager who was extremely restricted by the limited way English football, footballers and top flight managers look down at the Under-21...
View ArticleThe F.A. would be better off with Roland Rat…
…in charge. There’d be as much if not a better chance of the national football team winning the 2022 World Cup than with Greg Dyke if yesterday’s showing is anything to go by. Yeah! Rat fans!!! Would...
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England don’t have the guts to be where Germany are…
…now. And that’s why we they lost two consecutive games at Wembley for the first time since 1977, in the process producing NO shots on target against a third string German training session. England...
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Don’t worry, I shall be back…
…we shall all be back. Following on from yesterday’s post another great final line of a film. Leslie Howard’s classic “’Pimpernel’ Smith”. Not long after yesterday’s post I caught this classic piece of...
View ArticleFourteen years after Shearer embarrassed Germany…
…they get the last laugh. In Euro 2000 Germany finished bottom of the their group after defeat by England, they took that as an insult and while we’re still stuck with Shearer they are holding aloft...
View ArticleStuart Pearce had to go but it certainly wasn’t
all his fault.He did a pretty good job for a tactically limited manager who was extremely restricted by the limited way English football, footballers and top flight managers look down at the Under-21...
View ArticleThe F.A. would be better off with Roland Rat
in charge.There’d be as much if not a better chance of the national football team winning the 2022 World Cup than with Greg Dyke if yesterday’s showing is anything to go by. Yeah! Rat fans!!!Would...
View ArticleEngland don’t have the guts to be where Germany are
now.And that’s why we they lost two consecutive games at Wembley for the first time since 1977, in the process producing NO shots on target against a third string German training session.England have...
View ArticleDon’t worry, I shall be back
we shall all be back.Following on from yesterday’s post another great final line of a film. Leslie Howard’s classic “’Pimpernel’ Smith”.Not long after yesterday’s post I caught this classic piece of...
View ArticleFourteen years after Shearer embarrassed Germany
they get the last laugh.In Euro 2000 Germany finished bottom of the their group after defeat by England, they took that as an insult and while we’re still stuck with Shearer they are holding aloft the...
View ArticleSie mögen eine gute Flagge
die Deutschen tun.When you watch the Bundesliga three things stick out and all three were there as Borussia Dortmund beat Spurs 2-1 to go through 5-1 on aggregate to the Europa League quarter...
View ArticleOnly Roy can spoil this by
being Roy.Roy Hodgson is currently riding high on the coattails of players he wouldn’t have picked for the squad never mind started if his favourites were available.Everything Roy Hodgson said before...
View ArticleThere couldn’t be more fitting a final for such an awful
tournament.Euro 2016 ended as it started and then meandered for a month as the only team to beat Iceland lost the final to the team that qualified out of the group stage below Iceland.In Saint-Denis,...
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