1. England win. A feeling of relief at the final whistle, but we were almost left feeling deflated. We totally deserved to win against a poor team who benefited from bad refereeing decisions on penalty area incidents. It allowed Tunisia to defend throughout the second half, in which I could have played in goal for … [Read more…]
The start of the World Cup is now less than a week away, and I am beginning to get that buzz of anticipation. I am English, and proud of it, and I am just old enough to remember 1966 and that joyful feeling of being on top of the world. Little did I know that … [Read more…]
Two home friendlies against two top footballing nations, both 0-0 draws. To many people, including some of my mates, it was just more boring football, although I suspect that some of them couldn’t even be bothered to watch it in the first place. (Fair enough, it can get you like that when you’ve been watching … [Read more…]
Having watched the recent World Cup qualifiers, and been totally underwhelmed by the just-doing-enough performances, I was delighted to see the U17 success this weekend. Beating Brazil and Spain to win the World Cup is a sentence I never thought I would be typing. All the England under-age teams have performed admirably recently, and we … [Read more…]