All posts tagged "England national team"

  • Jonjo Shelvey impresses for England as defensive midfield option

    Jonjo Shelvey, Gylfi Sigurdsson, and Ashley Williams left Swansea City for international duty tied third in the Premier League on points with Leicester City, and should all return in even higher spirits (which says something, given Williams...

    • Posted September 6, 2015
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  • England set for a World Cup qualifying meeting with the Auld enemy!

    Vladimir Putin (somehow) managed to keep his shirt on, and no one throw a flutter of fake cash over Sepp Blatter, so things seemed to be running relatively smoothly at the preliminary draw for the Fifa 2018...

    • Posted July 26, 2015
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  • A Frantastic weekend for English football

    There was (finally) something for England supporters to shout over the past weekend of football, with both the men and women producing key wins. The senior England men’s team beat Slovenia 3-2 away from home in the...

    • Posted June 17, 2015
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  • Wilshere’s England strikes highlight attacking potential

    It’s become a cliche that injuries and Jack Wilshere go hand-in-hand. First it was his left hamstring then his right ankle, which he has injured on seven separate occasions over a seven-year career. His left ankle isn’t...

    • Posted June 14, 2015
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  • A Jack (Wilshere) of all trades! — England roundup

    Jack Wilshere seems to be a man of all trades — in the past nine days alone he has lifted the FA Cup with Arsenal, got in a bit of bother with a Gordon Ramsey-style expletive laden...

    • Posted June 8, 2015
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  • England 4-0 Lithuania — Three Lions review

    It only took Steven Gerrard thirty-eight seconds to be sent off for Liverpool, but conversely, eighty seconds for Harry Kane to score for England! Kane’s debut was right out of a Disney movie, as Kane’s fairy-tale dreams...

    • Posted March 29, 2015
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  • Solving the player development conundrum

    Remember Jack Rodwell? Scott Sinclair? Remember Ravel Morrison and even Andros Townsend? Too many promising English prospects have been lost to the world of football rusting on the bench. Both Rodwell and Sinclair presented themselves as England’s...

    • Posted February 18, 2015
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  • MOTD: England 3-1 Slovenia

    Throughout the thirteen minutes when all four goals were scored by England and Slovenia tonight, Wayne Rooney and Danny Welbeck showed the form that had been lacking at the World Cup in Brazil and at Manchester United...

    • Posted November 15, 2014
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  • MOTD: England 5-0 San Marino

    It was the kind if mismatch that had to be played, but will hardly affect Euro 2016 qualifying at all. The match tonight perhaps said more about UEFA’s new qualifying and tournament format than either San Marino...

    • Posted October 9, 2014
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  • WC MOTD: England 1-2 Italy

    Months ago, when the schedule for the World Cup was released, England coach Roy Hodgson went in a tirade on the fact that England had to play in Manaus at the Arena Amazonia stadium, where temperatures can...

    • Posted June 14, 2014
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