Wayne Rooney put in a vintage performance last night as England triumphed 3-1 in Belarus. Gerrard opened the scoring early on, taking the pressure off, and Rooney netted a brace to secure victory. Belarus were no mugs though – they scored a delightful goal of their own, and passed the ball nicely. Without ever looking [...]
Every so often you see something that is miss of the season. This, however, really is. Chris Iwelumo, with a gaping open goal, with Scotland tied at 0-0 with Norway. Tikka boo son. How costly this will prove to Scotland – and to Iwelumo’s quality of life – only time will tell. Brilliantly, George Burley’s [...]
An ultimately convincing 5-1 triumph gave England three wins from three matches in WC qualifying, cementing our strong position at the top of the group. A win in Belarus on Wednesday and it would take an implosion for us not to qualify. There were impressive performances from Frank Lampard – who I am not the [...]
England take on Kazakhstan on Sturday – 17.15 kick off – and then Belarus on Wednesday – 20.00. After the fantastic result in Croatia, its essential that 6 points are garnered from the two matches. Capello could have stuck with the 11 that got that famous victory in Zagreb – James, Cole A, Brown, Terry, [...]
I did the GNR on Sunday – hence the lateness of this weekend’s review. It was good fun, tough but rewarding, and as it stands we have raised around £1350 for the RNIB, which is great. A few observations on the day: There are just SO many people (over 50,000 I believe). The energy required [...]
So… an interesting weekend of football. Utd and Chelsea won convincingly – 2-0 did not do either of them justice – Liverpool won stirringly, coming from 2-0 down to win 3-2 at Man City, and Arsenal continued their recent erratic form, scraping a last minute draw against Sunderland on the back of a tremendous 4-0 [...]
The weekend’s Premiership Fixtures: Saturday, 4 October 2008 Blackburn v Man Utd, 17:30 Sunderland v Arsenal, 15:00 West Brom v Fulham, 15:00 Wigan v Middlesbrough, 15:00 Sunday, 5 October 2008 Chelsea v Aston Villa, 15:00 Everton v Newcastle, 16:00 Man City v Liverpool, 15:00 Portsmouth v Stoke, 15:00 Tottenham v Hull, 15:00 West Ham v [...]
Steven Gerrard scored his 100th Liverpool goal, their third in a 3-1 defeat of PSV Eindhoven in the Champions League last night. See all the goals from that game here. Meanwhile, Chelsea laboured to a 0-0 draw at home to Cluj (managed by an extremely ill-looking Bruce Rioch). See the lack of goals in that [...]
Last night saw wins for Man Utd – 3-0 away to Aalborg, and Arsenal – 4-0 at home to Porto, and a brave defeat for Celtic, going down to a Marcos Senna inspired Villareal 1-0 in Spain. Utd and Arsenal both missed a hatful of chances – for Utd, Berbatov got two but should have [...]
