There had been some talk of Bolton’s 24 year old central defender Gary Cahill making a late run at England’s World Cup 2010 squad, but that’s finished now. Cahill has been ruled out for the rest of the season with a blood clot in his arm. Cahill is yet to make his full England debut [...]

At the start of the week I asked Should John Terry Keep the England Armband? Reaction was pretty much mixed. Personally, I was happy either way, provided Terry wasn’t jettisoned altogether. We just don’t have enough quality defenders to do away with someone for having an affair.
Today, Fabio Capello made the decision. He sat down [...]

I’ve been a little slow typing this up, mostly because I was stranded at Newark Liberty Airport for more or less the whole weekend. But the big big big England news is John Terry. Captain John Terry. Without going into the legal details of a super-injunction, the basic story is that John Terry allegedly had [...]

I’m aware that this blog is turning a bit of a Wayne Rooney smoochfest. But he’s our best player, and he’s in top form. So commence smooching.
Rooney put in another fine performance last night in the League Cup semi-final second leg vs Man City, including a 92nd minute header that won the game for Man [...]

Despite his many many goals for England (25 in 57 appearances so far) I don’t really think of Wayne Rooney as a goalscorer. That sounds insane, I know. But it’s not that I doubt Rooney’s ability to put ball in net, it’s more that he does so much else that I tend to think of [...]

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A bit of advice from England cricket fans – aka the Barmy Army – about travelling to South Africa.
Wish I could say this was useful, but most of it sounds a lot like simple common sense. Basically don’t run around South Africa shouting “I’m carrying loads of cash and I’m not very [...]

Remember the National Football Centre? The facility in Burton-upon-Trent (centrally located) that was supposed to be England’s answer to France’s Clairefontaine? Well, after a bit of a hiatus, the facility has been renamed St. George’s Park and looks to be happening again.
The centre is intended as both a training base for all England teams [...]

England’s World Cup Group C opponents Algeria were in action vs Malawi in the Africa Cup of Nations today. As you can see above, it did not go well.
Algeria went into the game very much as favourites, but ended as 3-0 losers. Disastrous defending for the first goal. And the third. Malawi blogger Sscouser [...]

Looks like David Beckham’s return to Serie A on loan with Milan (again) went quite well. Milan had a few injury problems, so Beckham played on the right hand side of a three man forward line (with Ronaldinho on the left and Marco Borriello in the middle.
With Fabio Capello (visiting home befor major knee surgery) [...]

It’s no secret that England’s problem position is officially goalkeeper. Forget the left-sided problem. That was solved thanks to Fabio Capello’s brain and Steven Gerrard/Wayne Rooney’s willingness to interchange. But goalkeeper isn’t a position you can solve with tactical tinkering. You’ve either got a good keeper or you haven’t.
Right now the England gloves are very [...]