Posts Tagged ‘england’
Adare’s Anglians Save Capello’s England
ENGLAND went to the 1970 World Cup as defending champions. They had a better team than in 1966, and were one of the favourites to win the tournament.
In the event they played very well in the group match against the eventual champions Brazil, and should have won. Then they threw away a 2-0 lead in the quarter-finals against West Germany, through a combination of uncharacteristic defending errors and misjudged substitutions.
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Posted: 2nd, April 2009 | In: Flashback, Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
The G20 In Numbers
THE G20 in numbers…
1 – Rule for them and not for us
G19 – Major economic powers
G20 – 19 plus the EU, and Thailand and Ethiopia
Education, education, education…
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Posted: 31st, March 2009 | In: Politicians | Comments (2)
Frank Lampard hates his new England top
FRANK Lampard likes to look good, so he wasn’t a happy bunny when he was made to wear Umbro’s latest England “off-duty” casual shirt, a striped affair that screams “Chav!” in a very loud voice.
During a press conference in the wake of England’s 4-0 thumping of Slovakia on Saturday, Lamps tugged at his sleeve, saying:
“Even though we have these terrible tops on, at least we are all wearing the same… Have we got a better chance of winning the World Cup now? Possibly. We’re in a good position, we’re working hard but hopefully they’ll change these shirts!”
Not-so-subtle message to Umbro: change the shirts, they look crap. Unlike England’s new all-white kit, which looks rather smart.
The Current Bun has a video of Frank getting shirty.
Posted: 31st, March 2009 | In: Sports | Comments (6)
Umbro can’t plug new England shirt leak
AFTER many years of producing terrible kits for England, it appears Umbro may finally have got it right (the fact that Nike, who do tend to make decent kits, now owns Umbro may have something to do with it).
This is a leaked photo of the new England home kit, as sported by skipper John Terry and goalie David James. There seems to be some debate about whether or not the photo is genuine, but Anorak can confirm it is for real (don’t ask us our sources – we’d only have to kill you).
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Posted: 28th, March 2009 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comments (5)
John Terry’s Mum Nicks Pedigree Chum
UPDATE: John Terry’s mum arests:
“JT’s mum nicked Pedigree Chum” – Sun
JOHN TERRY’S old Mum, Sue, has been nicked and officially cautioned by police for shoplifting clothes and food from Marks & Spencer and Tesco, at a shopping centrey in Surrey.
Stay classy, footballer’s mum.
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Posted: 28th, March 2009 | In: Sports | Comments (4)
David Beckham is The Terminator
SAINT David of Beckhamshire will not stop, ever. Much like Arnie’s Terminator.
Ahead of this Saturday’s England friendly against Slovakia at Wembley, Becks has admitted he will never retire from international football, ever. EVER, do you hear him!?
When a journalist suggested he couldn’t play until the age of 50, Becks replied (tongue nowhere near his cheek):
“You never know… I’m passionate about playing for my country. If I’m honest, I assumed I wouldn’t play for my country again after being taken out of the team by Steve [McClaren, after the 2006 World Cup]. I just thought: ‘That’s it.’ I was proud to have played the number of times I had and to be brought back in was extra special. I think I’d recognise when the time is right to finish playing. I’m an honest person – I’ve always been like that – and I wouldn’t want people wondering why I’m still playing, but I’d like that option to be involved in a squad one day. If that happens when I’m 45, then great.”
Forty five!! How deluded is Beckham? On a scale of one to deluded, we’d rank him somewhere around… deluded.
Someone take him out back and shoot him, please.
Posted: 27th, March 2009 | In: Sports | Comments (5)
Freddie Flintoff’s Caribbean cruise
THE Current Bun is aghast to discover that Andrew Flintoff and best bud Steve Harmison (how is that man still an international cricketer?) went on a luxury booze cruise only ‘hours’ after England’s humiliating defeat to the West Indies in the First Test at Sabina Park.
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To Berlin! England Expects In Germany
GEORGE Orwell famously described international sport as war minus the shooting, and nowhere in English sporting history is this more conspicuous than when England play Germany at football.
“Two World Wars and One World Cup” was the playground song of the late Sixties and early Seventies. Or as Frank McGhee of the Daily Mirror put it on the eve of the 1966 final: “If, on the morrow, the Germans beat us at our national game, we’d do well to remember that, twice this century, we have beaten them at theirs.”
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Posted: 20th, November 2008 | In: Flashback | Comments (3)
