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You have to think that no matter when it happened, England's Under-19 team would get a roasting from the press upon their exit from the European Championships.This happened on Tuesday, and while there is no doubt that Spain were the better team at th...
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With Mario Balotelli seemingly edging closer to a move to Manchester City, the Daily Telegraph have done a good assessment of his career to date.Written by Ian Chadband, Balotelli is painted as a bad boy teenager with bags of talent.There was a tim...
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Everyone seems to be penning articles about Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins, cycling and Sky Sports News this Monday morning, so it's a bit of a struggle to find anything worthy of this grand stage.What do we have though? Yes, it's an expose on new Manchest...
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Roy Hodgson is facing something of a thankless task to get Liverpool back on the straight and narrow, and that's a view which is also held by Des Lynam.Des, most to known here in the UK as a latter day Gary Lineker, has long since disappeared from ou...
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It seems as though The Independent’s James Lawton has snapped this morning. Fed up with players pretending that money is not a motivation for their summer transfer maneuvers, he ponders the problems afflicting football on Saturday morning.It does n...
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Manchester City’s extravagant spending has been in evidence this summer and it appears they are ready to once again redefine the transfer market by paying a ridiculous amount for Aston Villa jack-of-all-trades James Milner.But the cash-rich club ar...
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Roy Hodgson has inherited a bit of a mess at Liverpool, but the arrival of Joe Cole and the news that stars including Steven Gerrard, Dirk Kuyt, Pepe Reina and Daniel Agger are all happy to stay suggests he's doing something right.He's also been fair...
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With the transfer market still somewhat subdued, despite Joe Cole’s move to Liverpool, and the pre-season calendar yet to inspire, Martin Jol’s prospective move to Fulham has demanded attention in recent days.All the newspapers on Wednesday morni...
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All indications had been that Joe Cole wanted Champions League football and to stay in London, but the bookmakers gave us indications a move to Liverpool was on over the weekend and now he has agreed the deal.Mark Fleming, writing in the Independent,...
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So, just as Don Fabio thought the dust would settle, his buisness mate goes and publishes the "Capello Index" on the world wide web.Now, what the general media has failed to pick up is that Capello has not come up with these ratings, his name is simp...
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Emile Heskey's retirement from international football on Thursday was slightly overshadowed by the decision of the more illustrious Thierry Henry to throw in the France towel on the same day.But Heskey's decision to quit England has still got the Br...
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David Beckham has found himself back in the media spotlight in the last week - appearing on a Yahoo webchat before being interviewed on British television on Friday. Involved in the England World Cup set-up despite not being part of the playing squad a...
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News of Emile Heskey’s retirement from international football appears to be the cue for the nation’s newspapers to stick the boot in.Leading the not-so-generous appraisal of Heskey’s contribution to the England cause is the Telegraph’s Jim Wh...
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The reasons for England's World Cup failure are, if recent quotes are anything to go by, reall quite extensive. Thomas Muller blamed it on too many 'alpha males', Ryan Giggs similarly said it was a lack of teamwork, a wide variety of people attributed ...
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England's World Cup exit may have been some time ago, but the press are eager trying not to forget its lessons.Martin Samuel, writing in the Daily Mail, feels all English kids should have their school hours completely restructured to put an end to t...
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The World Cup may be over but the fall-out from the biggest tournament continues in earnest on Tuesday. According to Real madrid manager Jose Mourinho, football's biggest showpiece event is not better than the Champions League - an opinion that has bee...
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So it's all over. Spain secured the World Cup on Sunday night and the overriding feeling in the UK press is that football won the day over Dutch thuggery.While the Spanish stuck to their style, the Netherlands embraced brutality and were lucky to fin...
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Now that everything is coming to a close, Sean Ingle of the Guardian rounds it all up and wonders where South Africa 2010 can be placed in history. His piece in The Guardian reckons it was better when he was a kid.So where does this World Cup rank in...
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England manager Fabio Capello selects his final 23-man squad on Tuesday and although it is sure to be a tough decision it must have been even more difficult to decide to give the dreaded Gerrard-Lampard midfield axis one more try.With Gareth Barry ba...
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So, it wouldn't be England without some kind of media storm prior to the start of the tournament. And we've got Jose Mourinho to thank for this one.Granted, there has always been that nagging doubt that Fabio Capello might jump ship after the World Cup finals, despite him having a contract to run until...
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