Tragic news coming off the wires, as footballing legend Emile Heskey – once described as the “most popular footballer of his generation” – has decided enough is enough, he can’t take the adulation of playing for England any longer and has decided to call it a day.
Emile, I can’t express enough thanks for the [...]

Rio Ferdinand is officially out of the World Cup. He sustained a knew injury earlier on in training, right at the end of the session, and has apaprently done knee ligement damange, that will see him out of the tournament. Michael Dawson will almost certainly be called up to replace him, while Steven Gerrard will [...]

Here we go. The rollercoaster has well and truly started – England have their first injury problem of the tournament. Rio Ferdinand picked up a knee injury in the final minutes of training and has had to head to hospital to see how serious it is. Knee problems are really hard to judge, so if [...]

“Ethan, stop talking about the midfield all the time”. Or what?
England and ‘The Gerrard and Lampard Conundrum’ have been synonymous since the days of Sven Goran Eriksson. After various unsuccessful attempts to crowbar the two outstanding English midfield talents into the same team Fabio Capello appeared to have the answer: placing Gareth Barry and Frank Lampard in the [...]

It wouldn’t be England without a will he/won’t he? saga. Or would it?
There have been times during the last two years of England under Fabio where certainty has filled the air and known quantities have filled the team sheet. The climate around the England camp now is very different and the main cause of that [...]

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Matilda has already made a convincing case for Why Jack Wilshere Shouldn’t Go to South Africa. And I think we can more or less assume that he won’t. There’s just too much competition for places in midfield, and I see all kinds possible World Cup squad [...]

Let’s face it: Stevie G is a pretty sketchy character. Not that John Terry didn’t have his little bumps along the way before finally getting relieved of his position as England captain, but those were all off the field. Gerrard has had his share of off-the-field-drama after getting arrested for punching a DJ (which made [...]

Sadly, I’m not referring to someone playing now who can take Ashley Cole’s place on that plane to South Africa if the need arises. What I am talking about is this wonderful piece in the guardian today, about Terry Cooper, the Leeds United left back who seemingly defined the modern role.
Cooper was a part [...]

Well after watching this video I’m pretty sure more engineering went into the design of the away kit than went into my toaster. In fact I’m a little surprised the kit itself doesn’t make toast. I guess it’s good to know that our boys are getting nothing but the best. And, of course, as a [...]

England’s kit launches are getting weirder and weirder.
The World Cup 2010 home shirt was revealed amid much pomposity in March 2009, with the England players removing their tracksuits to reveal the new kit during the national anthem. It was a bit much.
The new England away shirt for World Cup 2010 was revealed last night in [...]