Category Archives: Matches

The England defeat famous for the best bit of commentary of all time. “Maggie Thatcher, can you hear me? Maggie Thatcher, your boys took one hell of a beating….”

It seems the days of watching England playing away from home and struggling to get a one to two nil victory or even a draw are over. As under Southgate, England are establishing themselves as an outstanding team that look to fear no one whether they are playing in front of 80,000 at Wembley, or in front of an initimidating crowd in Eastern Europe. Before last night, England had not… Read Article →

England played for the first time last night since they came from behind to beat Croatia 2-1 on the 18th November at Wembley in the Nations League. The win that night made it three straight international wins on the trot and four wins in six games since that defeat to Belgium in the Third Place Play-Off game at the World Cup. Now they are back in action in the UEFA… Read Article →

Okay, so it wasn’t 3-0 – but it was the victory that England needed to top their Nations League Group and it is them that will be heading to Portugal for the inaugural playoffs in June next year. Gareth ‘GS’ Southgate has done an excellent job to get them to this stage after their slow start to the competition. Yes Spain blew it to some extent, but you have to… Read Article →

If this report has taken a few days in the making, you can understand why. England’s dream of winning the World Cup came to an end against Croatia. It’s not coming home this time unfortunately. Instead we have another “oh so near”, a missed opportunity and a case of what might have been. But we should be proud of what they achieved in this tournament. The team did everything that… Read Article →

Back in 1990 a young and naive version of myself watched England lose the World Cup semi-final to Germany. Little did he know he would have to wait 28 long years for another chance. But it’s finally happened. England are just one game away from a place in the 2018 World Cup final, and they got there fairly comfortably. Nobody was taking anything for granted, but on paper Sweden was… Read Article →

Right then, hands up if you thought you’d never live to see the day? Well you did, and it did really happen. England have finally won a penalty shoot out in a World Cup, for the first time ever, and the first in any competition for 22 years. We’re into the quarter finals folks! On the balance of play, you have to say that England deserved to go through. But… Read Article →

It feels kind of surreal that England lost a competitive match at a major tournament, but nobody really cares. England will now play Colombia in the last 16 after their 1-0 loss to Belgium in what was a predictably low key affair. This was billed as the match that nobody wanted to win. Whoever won the match would win Group G. But they would then be in what is perceived… Read Article →

This isn’t the way England normally do things. While most fans were expecting to win the match, I’m not sure anyone realistically expected a scoreline like this. The match lacked the nail biting excitement of the win over Tunisia, but for England fans it was no less enjoyable. This was the team’s record win in a world cup finals, and at the same time Harry Kane became only the third… Read Article →

Wow, that was quite a match! After some of the snoozefests England have been involved in in recent years, I’m not sure our pulse rates were quite ready for all that! Now that the hangover has subsided, it’s time to reflect on what happened and where we go from here. One thing’s for sure, it feels much better this morning with 3 points than it would have with 1. Well,… Read Article →