by Ste | Jun 25, 2012 | Features, Main Features
When Chris Waddle’s shoulders slumped in Turin as he watched his penalty soar high into the humid night sky a nation mourned as one. The dream that had twinkled and tantalised from Gazza’s boots during that now famous 1990 campaign vanished with a consolidatory hug...
by Ste | Jun 25, 2012 | Features, Main Features
by Liam McConville As England head home following another heart-breaking penalty defeat, the analysis and post-mortem will begin as the country tries to recover from this latest setback. After one hundred and twenty minutes of soaking up pressure, penalties were yet...
by Ste | Jun 25, 2012 | Features, Main Features
by Darren Walsh Now this is obviously a very tough game to call due to the equal abilities of the two teams, but Alan Hansen has just compared Andrea Pirlo and Steven Gerrard as if they’re the same type of player. Narrow Italian team, not that Milner and Young will...
by Ste | Jun 23, 2012 | Features, Main Features
by Andy Robinson Following on from Russ Cowper’s excellent “England on the NHS” article about watching the Euro’s from his hospital bed and the editor’s request basically for “more stuff like this” I took the opportunity to pack away my notebook along with my passport...
by Ste | Jun 22, 2012 | Features, Main Features
by Jack Heaney The England job is not necessarily a position which has strings attached…it is one big string. A bullies dream; a place where logic is traded in and all hell breaks loose. And so often have we seen these strings work their magic. Even though Sir Bobby...