Monday, November 25, 2024

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England at Euro 2024 - An Honest and Fair Assessment

Discarded 1966 England football shirt

The dust won't settle for a while and the disappointment will be raw for some time, but this is the right moment to reflect on the unusual journey that England took at the 2024 European Championships in Germany. By the historical standards of the Three Lions, these past four weeks have represented their third best ever performance in a major tournament, obviously only bettered by 1966 and the last Euros (when England really should have finished the job against Italy). And yet, there's a clear split between those fans that think Gareth Southgate should continue for the next World Cup, and those that believe this is the right time for a new direction.

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Burnley, Baby, Burnley

Vincent Kompany at Bayern Munich

It's tempting to suggest that a little of Pep Guardiola's reflective magic stardust may just have landed in Munich with the arrival of Vincent Kompany, to take up his former master's mantle at Bayern after a season which saw his previous employers relegated to the Championship. The question is, is there more to the decision for him to step in and replace Thomas Tuchel? 

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Football - Heading For Change?

A Cristiano Ronaldo header during his time at Juventus

As a parent of children playing football- the youngest a current Chelsea in the Community player, the eldest having passed through their ranks up to Year Three- the FA's proposal to eventually phase out heading in youth football speaks equally loudly to both fatherhood and the fan in me…

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Rock Me Charisteas - A Look Back at the Miracle of EURO 2004

The Greece team lifting the trophy at EURO 2004

There are certain subjects worthy of debate which must, practically by law, pop up every time the very word “football” is spoken in any pub the length and breadth of the country, if not the world. One of them must be the “greatest upset of all time”... 




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Fenerbahçe- A Lig Of Their Own

Ali Koç the club president of Fenerbahçe

As the country prepares to co- host Euro 2032 alongside Italy, it would seem that somewhere near the top of the Turkish Football Federation's priority list has to be sorting out the multitude of problems currently rife in the domestic game...

 

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