The Future

As a follow-on from my previous football-related post, during which I promised to espouse on the ways that the England footy team can recover from its current pit of despair, another significant event in the England calendar occurred today as the first half of the mountain that needs to be climbed has been identified.  This afternoon’s draw for the qualifying campaign for World Cup 2010 has thrown us, once more, together with scourge of Euro qualifiers, Croatia.  The other teams

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Tags: 2010, Andorra, Belarus, Croatia, England, FA, Kazakhstan, Steve-McLaren, Ukraine, World-Cup

Remember When England Could Win Matches?

When Mladen Petric fired home Croatia’s winner and broke the hearts of every England fan on Wednesday night, I was reminded of an old sketch from the Mary Whitehouse Experience… [adopting a John Motson-style voice] “D-I-S-A-S-T-E-R-F-O-R-E-N-G-L-A-N-D…. and that could spell disaster for England!”. On a global scale, when watching news footage from cyclone-hit Bangladesh or the unfolding political tensions in Pakistan or the quashing of freedom in Burma, it’s easy to argue about the fact that this was, after all, only a football match.

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Tags: Brian Barwick, Croatia, England, Euro2008, FA, Football, International, Kevin Keegan, Qualification, Steve-McLaren, Sven Goran Eriksson, WAGs

I’m Not In The Mood For Dancing

Week 12, where does the time go? We’re almost a quarter of the way through the year and I’ve managed to maintain this diary all the while. It doesn’t include the snippets of TV (such as the varius 20/30 minute dips into the Cricket World Cup that have been frequently interrupting my viewing over the last weeks) nor the channel hopping to which I find myself drawn and I can’t be bothered recording all the news programmes and the like, but the rest of it is here and saved for

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Tags: 24, Cricket-World-Cup, England, Euro, General, Hannah-Spearitt, Heroes, Lost, Primeval, Steve-McLaren