England’s absentees were discussed previously (click here) – and with the added injury to Theo Walcott (who could be out for up to three months – and has added fuel to the fire in the club v country debate) there will certainly be a chance for the fringe players. Would Capello have given them a [...]
Theo Walcott has suffered a dislocated shoulder while training with England, and could be out for as long as a month. Read the full article here – and as it says, although bad news for England after the withdrawals detailed a few posts earlier, its worse for Arsene Wenger and Arsenal. But as one door [...]
Both of England’s star central midfielders have been ruled out of the game against Germany tomorrow. Gerrard has a small tear in a leg muscle and could be out for 5-10 days (most likely 5, I’m sure he’ll make Saturday’s game against Fulham…) whereas Lampard has a damaged rib. Again, I’m sure he will be [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
10 – Theo Walcott’s age when he started playing football. He made his Southampton debut five years later. (Taken from the Times’ excellent ‘Ahead of the Game’ email, which arrives at around 16.00 every day) Sign up here.
Where did that come from?! After all the hating, England produced their best performance for seven years last night, winning 4-1 in the cauldron of Zagreb. Like their previous pinnacle, the 5-1 in Munich, there was a hat-trick for a young starlet – Theo Walcott in this case – but that was just one of [...]
Fabio Capello has come out and said he’s happier to be playing away because the England fans are a negative influence on the side. I am glad he has said this. As fans we are all too happy to blame the players, or the manager, or the English football system, but never ourselves – because [...]
A quote from earlier in this blog: Thursday, 21 August 2008 England Dear oh dear. So much for a brave new world under Capello. England were as boring and disappointing as ever last night, completely underwhelming and totally underperforming. Rooney dropped off too much, Defoe looked short of international class, Gerrard didn’t play like he [...]
Dear oh dear. So much for a brave new world under Capello. England were as boring and disappointing as ever last night, completely underwhelming and totally underperforming. Rooney dropped off too much, Defoe looked short of international class, Gerrard didn’t play like he does for Liverpool, David James raised the same old questions, etc etc [...]
