2012 is a big year in football, Euro2012 in Poland and the Ukraine is the big international tournament. So my big question is what sort of summer is it going to be for England and…
Posts tagged Capello
The pressure of playing at home?
After England returned home after a very poor showing in South Africa manager Capello promised there would be changes in both approach and personnel. Qualifying for Euro 2012 started with two comfortable wins against what…
England Postmortem – Chapter 79
Typically when England go out the papers will fill the back pages with phrases like “brave”, “a team of heroes” or something along those lines. There are exceptions, in 2002 after Beckhams sending off against…
Glass half full… Glass half full…
Time for my glass half full moment. Yesterdays game has certainly been on my mind and the result was disappointing for England, but no more than that. The peerless British sports pages (and I mean…
Englands World Cup finally opens
South Africa opened the World Cup with a great goal; England opened theirs with an utterly unbelievable goalkeeping blunder. It was a widely held belief among England fans that the keeper was not one of…
It’s almost here…
The squad has been announced, the last of the real friendlies are played and we’ve had the usual whines from the goalkeepers about how the match ball flies strangely through the air. Lets just say…