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Rooney the Villain…again

Wayne Rooney scored a magnificent goal for England last night, taking the ball on his chest, then powerfully striking it past the helpless goalkeeper. Despite scoring few of these goals, it’s the kind of goal you associate our striker with scoring. When he catches the ball right, I can’t image there are many goalkeepers who [...]

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When in doubt, blame United

Finally, the words I have been waiting for before I wrote about the events of Saturday, have been released by Wayne Rooney. ”I want to say absolutely categorically that I did not intentionally put my foot down on Ricardo Carvalho. When the referee produced the red card I was amazed – gobsmacked.” When the final [...]

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Can England Only Dream of Joga Bonito?

After seeing Chelsea cruise to an easy Premiership title this season, without really breaking in to a sweat, or, without playing good, exciting, entertaining football, it raised the question of what was more important, beautiful football, or trophies. The fuss that has been made about Joga Bonito, with our Eric telling the world that “for [...]

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They’re shit, and we know they are

After seeing Joe Cole score a goal which surely will be a contender for goal of the tournament, and generally a pretty good forty five minutes of football, it was beginning to look like maybe England could put their dismal performances in the first two games behind them. Of course it could be said that [...]

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