Match Of The Midweek: Switzerland 1-3 England
Sep 08
Two games, six points and seven goals. On the pitch, at least, it is starting to feel worryingly as if this summer’s meltdown in South Africa never happened for England. Off it, meanwhile, it has been a busy week in very different ways for England’s players and their PR people, and the suspicion remains that the team are hanging on by their fingernails with their opening two results...
The European Championship Draw Fails To Set The World Alight
Feb 07
There is something feintly disorientating about the draw for the qualifying rounds of Euro 2012, coming, as it does, before the World Cup finals have even started and in the middle of the domestic season. Still, on a February Sunday afternoon in Warsaw, there it was with six groups of six teams and three groups of five and England face some tricky matches if they are to make it to Poland and...
Video Of The Week: Match Of The 70s – 1971/72
Nov 30
This week’s Video Of The Week is the second in the series of “Match Of The Seventies” videos, as hosted by Dennis Waterman. The 1971/72 football season was significant for several different reasons. Brian Clough’s Derby County pipped Leeds United to the Football League championship, evening matches were banned by the government as the energy crisis kicked in and Hereford...
Spain – European Champions
Jun 30Spain, then, are the European champions and, with the benefit of hindsight, it’s difficult to argue a case against them winning it. Euro 2008, however, was just like that in many respects. How many times did you sit down in front of the television and think, “Well, they’re definitely going to win it”? At least three or four, I’d bet. Before we get going with what...
Brushed Aside
Jun 27We had very high hopes for this match, didn’t we? When pressed, this was going to be the classic of the two matches. The match that would repeated in slow motion with a light opera and indie rock soundtrack. As it turned out, though, Russia vs Spain was a comparatively one-sided match, won convincingly by Spain against a Russian team that really failed to turn up at all. Andrei Arshavin,...
No Stopping Them
Jun 26In the end, then, Turkey didn’t have quite enough about them to be able to keep Germany at bay but, lord, they have given us some fabulous memories in this tournament and will be sadly missed in the final on Sunday evening. Germany, by contrast, are in the final of another major tournament without having played particularly well last night, and will face the winners of tonight’s match...
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