England National Football Team

Ever since the success in 1966 us english (though probably not the scottish and welsh especially) have been yearning for a repeat of that. We have seen world cups and with all the surrounding hype that comes with it come and go. In fact despite the fact that we invented this brilliant sport, we seem to be floundering. The english approach... Football is a beautiful game but the john smith advert epitomised unfortunately the type of football england play, because while the other players in the advert were demonstrating their fancy keep up skills, the english guy thumps it high in the air lol. Unfortunately this approach does typify the ...  Read the complete review

The England team are now well on course to qualify for the world cup in 2010 which is going to be held in South Africa. After winning all the games in qualifying up to this point (June 2009) including a very impressive 4-1 win against Croatia away, the team top their qualifying group. The current manager Fabio Capello has instilled alot more discipline in the squad and has got them performing on the pitch and has been getting good results on the most part. He may not be English which would have been the preferred option but he is a world class manager who has managed some of the top teams in Europe including AC Milan, Juventus , Roma and Real Madrid. He has ...  Read the complete review

Take your minds back to the era from approximately 2003-2007 the era where the English National Team were managed by sven goran eriksson and Steve Mclaren respectively . These were not good times for the national team , week in week out , I would watch many english players play fantastic in the bestg league in the world 'The Premier League' . Players such as Lampard , Gerrard , Beckham and Owen would all play fantastic at your old traffords and stamford bridges etc. But when it came to playing at Euro 08 or World Cup 2006 we would always underperform . I truly belive Fabio Capello has found the solution to this . The individuality element has gone and now its a team game ...  Read the complete review

Are we good enough to win the next World Cup in South Africa in 2010, i'm writing this after the reality check of the Spanish 2-0 victory over England in Seville during the week. I accept that England were missing Rio Ferdinand, Stevie Gerrard, Joe Cole, Wayne Rooney and Theo Walcott, but I do ask myself would they have been able to get the ball off of the spaniards to make a difference, would one of those players have created something out of nothing that could turn a game, my answer in the inevitable optimism of being an England fan is maybe. With Rooney's creativity and eye for the unknown he could have created something for himself or via Emile Heskey, had Walcott ...  Read the complete review

I must admit that although I'm an avid sports fan, England football internationals can sometimes be rather dull to watch, especially with the apparent lack of effort that can sometimes come across, bringing up the whole club vs country argument that is always banged on about by the media and pundits. Although the game against Germany last night at Berlin's Olympic Stadium was a friendly I decided to watch it because I have seen all of Fabio Capello's games as England manager and so far I've been quite impressed by what I've seen; four wins out of four in a world cup qualifying campaign can't be bad! Last nights game was a bit of fresh air for me because a lot ...  Read the complete review