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 Euro 2012
Cynical, bitter and pessimistic – Another England post
There is something worrying me, it’s been bugging me for a while. I tuned into the England Wales match last weekend, it was online on ESPN-3 and something rather worrying happened. I joined the game…
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…
Levein and the “men in Blazers”
There are two people I know that really care about Craig Levein’s appointment as Scotland manager – my dad and Steve from Prost-Amerika. Coaching Scotland today is something of a thankless task, there really is…