Archive for the ‘England’ Category
Funny Video of the Week
As an England supporter, its not really funny.
Ok, blog at ya from Tokyo in a couple of days.
England 0 Portugal 0 (1-3 on pens)
It took being down to 10 men for England to finally show how well they can play and, as many had said they would, Lennon and Crouch were the guys leading the charge. If they could have played like that throughout the competition I think they’d be in the semis and one of the favourites. It does allow us to indulge our national pasttime – berating the coach and players in the press, I am sure we will see coach Erikkson and Wayne Rooney get a good roasting.
I think my Beat The Press entry is down the toilet although I doubt many had Portugal in the last 4. Perhaps if its a Germany Brazil final I might bring off an upset.
And in the meantime, England gets a new coach and the preparations start for qualifying for Euro 2008.
England 1 – Paraguay 0
The highlight of this match for me was my TiVo. I deliberately got up 20 minutes late so there would be some “tape in the bank” so I could fast forward over the half time show. It also meant I could fast forward over the many times one of the Paraguay players rolled around on the grass “hurt”.
Oh yeah, there was a game though not much of one. England need to shape up if they want to win this thing. I’ve never liked the send the ball forward, hope it hits the head of an attacker strategy the national team uses. Give the ball to Joe Cole, let him run with it, take them on and get people into positions. They should play how the Premiership teams play, aggresive attacking.
As with all England games, each one is going to be in doubt until the final whistle.
England Job Not For Scolari
So, the Portuguese coach says he definitely isn’t going to be the next England coach; apparantly he doesn’t like being hounded by the press. Go figure. But it seems to me that the England football coach should be an Englishman, not some bloody foreigner. Can you imagine the French or German teams hiring someone from another country? Now, it may be that we don’t have any decent coaches (unlikely) but even if true, the England coach should be like the England players: English.
Goaalll Its a Goalll!
I know everyone has seen this before a thousand times over but in celebration of England’s 2-1 defeat of Uruguay last night, uninspired or not, and the fact we are only 100 days from the World Cup, let’s revisit:
And Now For a Real Sport
Today was the draw for the World Cup Finals being held in Germany next year. England are in Group B with Paraguay, Trinidad & Tobago and Sweden. Of course all games at this level are difficult (and any game involving England is ten times more difficult than it needs to be) but one would expect us to have a very good chance of progressing to the next round. You can see the rest of the groups here at the BBC.
Some Animals For Ya
Enough ranting and moaning, here are a couple of pictures from a trip I took with my Dad to Marwell Zoo last month; to see all of them go to this Flickr photo set.



It’s England Week!
Don’t know why but Sunday when I was packing my bag for the week I decided that I would wear an England sport shirt to the office each day. Unfortunately I only have 4 such shirts so I either need to wear one twice or fail to show up for work one day this week.
Premiership Mayhem
One more game left in the Premiership league and, most likely, the last one for a while for my home team, Southampton. As this analysis by the BBC shows, it doesn’t look good for the Saints. But I caught some of the game with Crystal Palace and, really, they are pretty crap this season and probably deserve it. And Portsmouth won’t be trying to do us any favours – they’ll probably field a team of boys and farm animals in order to lose and thereby condemn their south coast rivals.