Soccer Limey in America

Quite predictably following an over-hyped victory over football minnows Moldova last week, England’s 3rd ranked senior side struggled to salvage a 1-1 draw against a stubborn Ukraine side at Wembley stadium last night. A late Frank Lampard penalty salvaged a lame point for a team that labored to contain the East Europeans who were content [...]

I haven’t written much over the past 2-3 weeks or so as being an English ex-pat living in the USA, my emotions have been completely caught up in that wonderful spectacle back home called the London Olympics. Day after day of supreme effort from British athletes has energized a nation and apparently cauterized the acid [...]

BBC Sport – Euro 2012: France 1-1 England. England today embarked on their Euro2012 with a robust defensive display against an in-form France team that threatens to win Group D outright. England opened the scoring withna Joleon Lescott header while France equalised just 9 minutes later with a Samir Nasri strike from 20 yards out. [...]

Over the past couple of seasons, I doubt that there has been a harsher critic of the England football team than myself. I have gone from a flag-waving, forget the scoreline, fanatical supporter to one who has grown tired of the mediocrity and feeble apologies and explanations from players and coaches. So for the first [...]

If I cast my mind back almost two years to mid-summer of 2010, I can recall it being one of the lowest points in my life as an England fan. Germany had just thrashed us 4-1 at the first knockout stage of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. It wasn’t that we lost that [...]

One of my must do tasks as I start my day off is to catch up on the news from the BBC Sport website and to my surprise this morning, I read that Gary Neville, ex Man Utd and England defender, had accepted a four year contract from The FA to be one of manager [...]

Back in July 2010, Liverpool FC were in a state of turmoil as their UEFA Champions League winning manager Rafael Benitez had been dismissed, or in our PC world “left by mutual consent”, for a continuing run of poor results and ever increasing calls from fans for a change, after having spent close to $300m [...]

As an ex member of Manchester United’s Stretford End, Liverpool have always been at the top of the list of teams to “hate”. I can’t tell you the number of times back in the 70′s that I stood in raw disbelief as my beloved United were torn to shreds by that awesome Liverpool team that [...]

Earlier today, Italian football giant Inter Milan and Spanish coach Rafa Benitez “mutually agreed to part company immediately”, or words to that effect. Basically, it amounts to the fact that Inter President Massimo Moratti had had enough of Benitez’s egotistical antics and said “Ciao”. As we move to the end of 2010, we’ll now see [...]