As some of you may know, I am a Bolton fan. At the very end of the transfer window, we were lucky enough to pick up a certain Daniel Sturridge on loan. In the three games since joining Bolton, he’s shown why Coyle was interested, scoring in each of them. He’s now scored as many [...]

They are falling like flies – Ben Foster is now out of the England game tomorrow, injured. The Birmingham keeper will be replaced by youngsters Scott Loach and Blackburn’s Frankie Fielding – which means it really is curtains for Robert Green and David James, and also means that my headline is not actually accurate.
Joe [...]

So the USA have announced their final 23 a couple of days earlier, so we can see the pool of players that will line up against England in our opening World Cup encounter on 12th June. 17 are based in Europe, nine in the UK (Not incluiding DaMarcus Beasley, who is unattached but most recently [...]

Guys, guys, come on, there’s enough of me to go around!
Attempting a detailed analysis of England’s tactical approach before their first World Cup game is unlikely to draw out accurate results, not least because Fabio Capello himself may still have several key decisions to make about his team; injuries and performances in friendlies against Mexico and Japan will feature prominently in his thoughts. Nevertheless, [...]

Interesting developments over the past two weeks regarding the fragile state of England’s full backs has led to speculation that Gary and Phil Neville could make surprising returns to the England squad for the World Cup in June. Both players are well into their 30’s and have been absent from the international scene for 3-4 [...]

David Beckham, of infinite stardom, has unfortunately ruptured his Achilles. He limped off in a league game today against Chievo, though it wasn’t because of a challenge, he appeared to injure himself midstride. The current verdict is 5 to six months out, which puts him firmly out of World Cup standings, though this is of [...]

An interesting article over at the Guardian today, which suggests that taking David Beckham to South Africa doesn’t really make any sense. The thrust of the argument is this – we have other more/similarly talented players waiting in the wings that we just can’t afford to leave at home.
The focus is particularly on Theo [...]

We were all hopeful when Michael Owen made his daring move to Manchester United. It showed drive, ambition, and guts really, to go from the bench of a relegated club to the best (they won the league afterall) club in the division, and one of the best clubs in the world. His reasons were pretty [...]

As Daryl posted earlier in the day, Wayne Bridge has removed himself from the England pool. I can definitely understand, it might be a bit painful being around your ex-teammate who hooked up with your baby-mama for a whole month. Aside from the inner-turmoil which is certainly making custody negotiations awkward for the Bridge family [...]

Remember this? We haven’t seen that Theo Walcott in a while. He’s only made 5 starts in the league this season and has fallen to a large number of injuries. Now he’s been left out of the U-21 England squad, which means two things. The first being that Wenger is happy, because he doesn’t want [...]