Web Round-Up

I’m somewhat glad that we’re through with the European Championships for a while. It’s too much football and not enough football at the same time. If you missed all of it this week, you’ll be able to catch it all on Saturday, on “Football Focus”. The next couple of days will give us all a [...]

Bloody Hell.

For those of you looking at this tomorrow morning, I didn’t sneak back and add my prediction for the England match after the final whistle. A 3-0 win away to Andorra. The result alone says quite a lot, really, but there was much more to it than that. As has been noted elsewhere, Andorra, with [...]

Wednesday Night Fever

I’ve cajoled someone into watching Andorra vs England with me tonight, so this will have to be fairly quick. Several things have come up which don’t warrant whole pieces devoted to them and, of course, I’ll probably find the time later tonight for a quick round up of all of tonight’s shenanigans (though I might [...]

Second Strings

If there’s one thing to be said about modern managers, it’s that they come out with a more or less constant stream of crap. It keeps most of us humble bloggers in business, you know. Whether it’s Mike Newell criticising women (and now may be a pertinent time to point out that he is currently [...]

Single European Currency

Way back when, in the days of midweek highlights only on the television for international football matches, there was a strong sense of order to proceedings. An hour-long edition of “Sportsnight” would feature England’s latest bumblings at a quarter-full Wembley, followed by brief highlights of Scotland and Wales, before finishing up with Northern Ireland, at [...]

Common Sense Prevails

Considering the amount of bad press that the Football Association receives (not least from me), it is with some considerable surprise that I can report that the outcome of AFC Wimbledon’s appeal against their eighteen point deduction by the Ryman League is in, and common sense has prevailed. The FA concluded that the the fine [...]

No Surprises There, Then

I didn’t see it, myself. I managed to find a nice little table in a pub in the town centre that wasn’t showing it, and it was like the whole thing never even happened – at least until I got home. Bearing this in mind, let me just take a quick moment to review England’s [...]

Euro If You Want To

Just because we’re metaphorically turning our backs on England until they get their house in order doesn’t mean that we should ignore the qualifiers for Euro 2008, because there’s plenty of interest to be had amongst the qualifying groups, and some of the bigger teams appear likely to make very hard work of getting to [...]

Death Of The Season

I’d be feeling depressed about it all it I was only interested in the big competitions. We’re not even into April yet, and already we’re looking at the distinct possibility of Chelsea and Manchester United boring us into submission on three counts at the end of the season. In the FA Cup, we can cheer [...]

Why I Hope England Will Lose On Saturday

If you believed half of what you read in the media, you’d think that Saturday’s European Championship Qualifier between England and Israel in Tel Aviv was the most important match in England’s history. It’s four matches without a win for England now, and they’ve managed just one goal in that period of time. They have [...]