David Beckham At London 2012 Moves A Step Closer

The Football Association have cleared up some of the conjecture about the make-up of the Great Britain squad for the 2012 Olympics. Its now now firmly stated that no players will be doubling up on Euro 2012 and London. The really interesting element in the announcement is that anyone selected for t...

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Beckham Strikes Silverware And Puts The Heat On Stuart Pearce

Who writes your scripts? is the famous comment by Graham Gooch about Ian Bothams legendary ability to take centre stage throughout his career. Something similar applies to David Beckham and he gave another example on Sunday by helping LA Galaxy win the MLS play-off final. This is probably the Engla...

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Olympics: Four Big Problems Facing Stuart Pearce's Team GB

So as expected, Stuart Pearce got the job of leading the Great Britain squad at next years jamboree. Hes been the favourite for so long that its a fair bet he knows nearly all the names hed like to have on board at the Olympics. The question is - will he have them all available? Its hard enough cho...

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Which 16 English stadiums could host World Cup 2018 and will Merseyside miss out?

It does seem a bit presumptuous to invite cities (and Milton Keynes) to bid for the right to be part of the attempt by the FA to get England chosen as the 2018 World Cup host nation. But given the success of the London Olympic bid there is some optimism that England could get this twice in a lifeti...

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Why avoid the easy answer to Team GB at the 2012 Olympics?

There are reports that FIFA is to allow a British team to compete at the Olympics without affecting the beaurocratic meetings that the home nations consider so important to belong to. This of course being the real reason that the Scottish FA so vociferously object to an Olympic team. Part of the a...

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914: Football has no place in the O

by : Paul Grech So what went wrong with England? Maybe people might just realise that we are not very good. Actually, that’s a little unfair, we showed the traditional England defensive qualities. Ashley Cole came of age for me marking Ronaldo to great effect against Portugal. And though it pa...

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