I don’t know if you, my lovely reader, have had the strength to continue watching the World Cup after The Incident. I, rather surprisingly, have continued to watch and quite enjoyed the quarters.This morning when the Argentina-Germany match arrived, I was conflicted. On the one hand, it might be nice to see Germany torn to [...]

Even though I have forgiven England, I haven’t quite gotten over the pain of that World Cup exit, and I’m assuming most of you haven’t as well. So, while you’ve probably already seen this (especially if you attended the England-Slovenia liveblog like a good reader) it’s worth watching again. It’s nice to be reminded that [...]

I’ve been trying to write a coherent post. Something with at least a little bit of analysis, opinion, maybe some legitimate sentences. I’ve had three separate goes at it, and ended up deleting the whole thing a paragraph and a half into it each time. Everything’s still so raw from yesterday. It’s funny how 4 [...]

‘What if’ moments just add to the glorious agony
In the aftermath of a humbling defeat even those who clung to rationalism throughout can take it personally. The hours that followed the Germany game elapsed quickly but the ubiquitous sense of disappointment lingered – four years of emotion went into the England machine and yet again nothing came [...]

And so it goes. England are out of the World Cup in the last sixteen stage, after being thumped by Germany by four goals to one. There were plenty of stories along the way, but ultimately, we just were not good enough, and have not been good enough all through the tournament.
The team that [...]

Remember how tscore them, Frank?
Frank Lampard, Steven Gerrard, Wayne Rooney, James Milner and Gareth Barry will take England’s penalties today should 120 minutes fail to separate themselves and Germany. Knockout football’s propensity to magnify fallibility has locked in on the Three Lions’ collective fear of failure at each of their four World Cup penalty shootouts – can today be [...]

A Mexcian (or some flavour of Hispanic) Correction: Not Mexican, Spanish(?) channel compiled a video of Capello’s many reactions during the Slovenia match. Well really it was just one reaction: unbridled fury. All I have to say is that I feel sorry for Stuart Pearce.

At every World Cup, we have our fair share of garbage TV spots and dumb articles to sift through, some of them may even have been mine, but following England’s 1-0 win over Slovenia the other day, I recall one particular article that jumped out at me from our old nemesis, Franz [...]

ue to issues with the server, this is rather late. So, as I’m sure you’ve already read a match report somewhere else, I’m going to do this a little different. Just an amalgamation of my observations from the match and my advice for Fabio (because, as we all know, when he’s wondering what to [...]

ith a sort of grim inevitability, England will play Germany on Sunday. England performed really well to finally get off to winning ways this Afternoon, but as did USA just about, which put England second in the group. A stunning German winner means its the old enemy in the next round.
I know, I know. [...]