BfB Goes To The World Cup 2010 (Without leaving the front room)

Germany 4 England 1

These days are rare. In league football every season the top teams are guaranteed at least two games against each other – Liverpool and Everton, Bayern Munchen and 1860 – they play with a metronomic regularity. They are the touch stones of a season. In international football though it is chance and not eventuality which [...]

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§253 · June 27, 2010 · England, Germany · Comments Off · Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

What type of England team do we want?

One which beats Germany, obviously, but in the last two weeks the England team has been questioned and answered those questions on the field with a good performance that deserved more than the 1-0. The adjectives directed at England after the win over Slovenia were muted in comparison to those tagged to the team when [...]

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§231 · June 25, 2010 · England · Comments Off · Tags: , , ,

USA 1 Algeria 0 & England 1 Slovenia 0

Jermaine Defoe was a young footballer at Charlton Athletic before – at 14 – defecting to West Ham because as a club they would be better for him. He was a part of a West Ham side that got relegated before exiting to Spurs and a return to the Premier League where he felt he [...]

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§209 · June 23, 2010 · Algeria, England, Slovenia, USA · Comments Off · Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Capello contemplates his choice of headlines

If the world laughed at the New York Post’s headline of USA Win 1-1 then one wonders what it will make of the booing, the dressing room invasions and the paraphrasing of Churchill that has come following England’s failure to beat Algeria? Perhaps it was Wayne Rooney’s questioning of the booing as not being loyal [...]

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§133 · June 19, 2010 · England · Comments Off · Tags: , , , ,

Algeria 0 England 0

England W. I’ve watched many England displayed ripped apart by a press ho long for blood and take it regardless of the quality of the performance but the goalless encounter between Fabio Capello’s side and Algeria has little to commend it and lots of damn it. Rabah Saâdane’s Algerians were effective but little more. They [...]

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§126 · June 18, 2010 · Algeria, England · Comments Off · Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Capello tests the theory

England manager Fabio Capello to test a theory that saw the previous non-English England manager Sven Goran Eriksson appointed specifically because the Swede was a man outside the English football structure. Eriksson – it was thought by Adam Crozier the Chief Executive who hired him – would be less tied to the traditions of the [...]

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§49 · June 13, 2010 · England · Comments Off · Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

England 1 USA 1

Before the game the rumours give us a team of Green, Johnson, King, Terry, A Cole, Lennon, Lampard, Gerrard, Milner, Heskey and Rooney and as I mull that I wonder how we have got to the stage of rumoured teams – any number of people including myself are gnashing teeth at the idea of lacking [...]

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§34 · June 12, 2010 · England, USA · Comments Off · Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Capello will rue leaving Huddlestone at home

The England squad announcement should never have been the big news that it dragged into being with the FA’s media management skills and the veracious appetite for the public via the media to have any and all information as soon as it becomes a fully formed thought once again coming into conflict. The day – [...]

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§1 · June 1, 2010 · England · Comments Off · Tags: , , , , , ,