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by Stephen Lunn on February 5, 2010
Revelations over Chelsea skipper John Terry's private life led to much speculation over the past week as to what actions England manager Fabio Capello would take. The Italian disciplinarian saw fi...
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by Stephen Lunn on October 28, 2009
Last night Spanish giants Real Madrid suffered a 4-0 defeat to third tier team Alcorcon in the Spanish King’s Cup, making it their third defeat in five games. Real have not won the cup in 16 years, a...
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by Graham Fisher on October 14, 2008
England under 21s scraped through to the European Championship finals with a battling and spirited, if largely unimpressive, aggregate win over Wales.
A 2-2 draw at Aston Villa following on from th...
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by Graham Fisher on October 13, 2008
A blow for England today as it is announced that they will be without captain John Terry and booed left back Ashley Cole for Wednesday's World Cup qualifying game in Belarus.
Skipper Terry mis...
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by Graham Fisher on October 8, 2008
Striker Peter Crouch has put the credit for his return to the England squad down to his manager at Portsmouth, Harry Redknapp.
Crouch was not named in Fabio Capello's last two squads but regula...
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by Graham Fisher on October 7, 2008
As England prepare for their two World Cup qualifiers over the next few days the rumours suggest that we will be in for the treat of seeing Steve Gerrard and Frank Lampard paired with each other in ...
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by Graham Fisher on September 11, 2008
I first saw Theo Walcott as a fifteen year old lad playing for Southampton in an under eighteen game at Swindon. I had never heard of him before but became aware that the great Cyril Regis was in at...
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by Graham Fisher on September 10, 2008
Why has Wembley suddenly become a nightmare venue for England?
For years Wembley was a fortress. The team played in front of flag waving fans in a serious show of patriotism. With the possible exc...
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by Graham Fisher on September 9, 2008
Joe Cole has said that England will adopt a defensive approach against Croatia on Wednesday in their World Cup qualifier.
Cole says that a draw would be a good result.
"We're working on...
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by Graham Fisher on September 8, 2008
Wayne Rooney has come under fire for the lack of goals he has been scoring for England. He insists that his scoring record is not weighing on his mind as he looks forward to Wednesday's World Cu...
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by Graham Fisher on September 7, 2008
Apparently Fabio Capello 'vented his anger' at Joe Cole and Wayne Rooney after England's laboured 2-0 win against Azerbaijan in their World Cup qualifier yesterday.
He said that he was ...
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by Graham Fisher on May 29, 2008
I wrote yesterday about the England captaincy and if Fabio Capello was hoping to get a clearer picture of who will be his long term Skipper, last night's game against the USA won't have help...
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by Graham Fisher on May 27, 2008
As England go into their meaningless friendly against the USA tonight there will only be one matter of any real interest. How will John Terry get on as the captain of the side.
He is the third man ...
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by Graham Fisher on March 27, 2008
England went down 1-0 to France in the Stade De France last night to a first half Ribery penalty. During the entire game England managed just one attempt on target. A look at the Sports pages of the...
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by Graham Fisher on March 25, 2008
Tomorrow night England travel to Paris to take on France in a friendly international. There will be many other international friendlies going on all over the world. Wigan manager Steve Bruce has spo...
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by Graham Fisher on March 6, 2008
England manager fabio Capello has given a big hint that David Beckham could feature in the friendly in Paris on the 26th of this month.
"There is a strong possibility that he will be selected&...
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by daryl on November 1, 2007
The evil geniuses at Who Ate all the Pies? are putting together the worst ever England team in the history of worst ever England teams ever, as chosen by readers. They've already cobbled together ...
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by daryl on October 18, 2007
Whatever happens next month, England fans can look forward to November. Either England will qualify for Euro 2008 by beating Croatia (and Israel helping us out by holding Russia to a draw) or England ...
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by daryl on September 13, 2007
With 3-0 wins over Israel and Russian the Three Lions are now up to second place in Euro 2008 Qualifying Group E and masters of their own fate. And after so long of England being absolute dump, it'...
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by daryl on September 5, 2007
Stuart Pearce has been complaining this week that he doesn't have many potential England Under 21 players to look at in the Premiership. Apparently he had to go to see Southampton at home to Stoke...
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by daryl on August 14, 2007
The big lesson from opening weekend in the Premiership was that NetResult are working overtime. They're basically the Premiership's evil legal representatives, working round the clock to preve...
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by daryl on July 25, 2007
If you're an England fan, and feel like fretting about England's lack of squad depth, look no further than Football 365's Famous European Championship Ladder.
It's a ranking of 50 play...
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by daryl on July 11, 2007
I think we can all agree that Jamie Carragher making himself unavailable for England selection is a bad thing. He's easily in the top three centre backs in England, he may be in the top two, he ma...
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by daryl on July 9, 2007
Interesting news recently that Jamie Carragher may be about to quit playing for England. Interesting for the following reasons:
1. It reflects the growing trend for players - especially one-club playe...
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by daryl on June 7, 2007
After an eternity of being vilified, Steve McClaren's England have now drawn with Brazil and then gone away and done a thoroughly professional job in Estonia. Beckham looked more like his old sel...
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by daryl on June 3, 2007
Seems McClaren's decision to recall David Beckham was the right one, if the right midfielder's impressive performance and floaty free kick (above) are anything to go by. But is it going to b...
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by daryl on March 24, 2007
I swear this has never happened before. Not under Sven, not under Kevin "tactics?" Keegan, not even under Graham Taylor. But for some reason, a small part of me wants England to lose today, ...
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by daryl on March 23, 2007
So called "super-agent" Pini Zahavi has claimed that the reason for England's dismal World Cup was jealousy of David Beckham.
The problem in the World Cup was that the players gave only ...
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by daryl on November 24, 2006
England assistant coach Terry Venable piped up again this week, claiming "we" (he and Steve McClaren) were fitting cheeky (see picture) Man City midfielder joey Barton for an England shirt.
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by daryl on November 15, 2006
The knives will be out for Steve McClaren after England's 1-1 draw with Holland tonight. There'll be complaints that going 4-3-3 to match the Dutch is cowardly, complaints that Andy Johnson ha...