Injuries Increase Ever Growing Pressure On International Football
For years on end managers across the country have sent their players away to represent their country and spent the whole time of their absence praying they all return fit and well. But after a week that saw several big name players pick up injuries while playing for their country, the pressure from managers for...
Hart Set For A Long Spell as England’s Number One
While Jermain Defoe took the goal-scoring honours on Friday night at the other end of the pitch Joe Hart was going a long way to establishing himself as England’s goalkeeper for the foreseeable future with another fine display. Fabio Capello’s decision to opt for an experienced ‘keeper at the World Cup at the expense of Hart...
Should Fabio Capello Still Be England Manager? Of Course.
After a successful, if occassionally indifferent 4-0 win over Bulgaria on Friday, England have won 11 successive home games. Before this game, the British tabloids were ready, knives sharpened, to cut England’s manager to pieces. In his England-Bulgaria preview last week, titled ‘Fabio Capello has lost his players and now he will lose his job’,...
A Welcome Result For Capello
With the pressure on Fabio Capello, England finally delivered a performance to make the country proud. But was this result and the performance the start of a change in fortunes for Capello or another result that get’s our hopes up only to be disappointed down the line? England may have gone some way to igniting...
England 1-0 Slovenia: Defoe’s Goal: Video
For England supporters who can’t get enough of seeing how England scored the goal against Slovenia today in the 2010 World Cup, here is the video replay of the goal scored by Jermain Defoe.
And what a beautiful cross it was that led to the goal. Defoe got into a good position and was able to...
Milner to Defoe, 1-0 England: Turns Out Fabio Capello Knows What He’s Doing…
This post is part of our series on World Cup 2010 Goals
There had been rumblings of discontent in the English tabloids, with doubts beginning to creep in as to whether England manager Fabio Capello really knew what he was doing. But of course he did.
Today Capello made two unforced changes to his England team for...
England 1-0 Slovenia: Three Lions Qualify for Second Round
Jermain Defoe is the hero in England today after he scored the only goal of the game that helped England move into the second round of the 2010 World Cup.
In a game that England dominated, despite some good chances by Slovenia to equalize, Defoe’s goal was what separated the sides and enabled England to finish...
Any Neutral Has to Root for Portsmouth and Avram Grant in the FA Cup Final
As the Portsmouth players put on their uniforms in the Wembley locker room this afternoon, they were under no allusions about what the future held for them and their team. They were going to be relegated down to the Championship League after the season. Once there, they were far more likely to be relegated again...
Jermain Defoe & Roman Pavlyuchenko should be Spurs’ 1st Choice Strikers – Poll Results
At the end of February, in the midst of a growing campaign from Tottenham Hotspur supporters for Roman Pavlyuchenko to get his chance in the first team, we asked who you thought should be Spurs' first choice strikers. Here were the results:1, Roman Pav...
Jermain Defoe and Roman Pavlyuchenko should be Spurs’ 1st Choice Strikers – Poll Results
At the end of February, in the midst of a growing campaign from Tottenham Hotspur supporters for Roman Pavlyuchenko to get his chance in the first team, we asked who you thought should be Spurs’ first choice strikers. Here were the results:
1, Roman Pavlyuchenko (50% of the vote)
2, Jermain Defoe (38%)
3, Eidur Gudjohnsen (5%)
4, Robbie...
England have options up front
Brian Lofrumento has faith in England's strike force.
Defoe, Crouch, Pavlyuchenko or Gudjohnsen? (Or Keane?) Tottenham’s Striker Conundrum
If one thing became crystal clear over this last Premier League weekend, it is that Tottenham Hotspur fans have a certain affinity for Roman Pavlyuchenko.The clamour from Spurs supporters wanting to see Pavlyuchenko's name on the teamsheet has grown in...
