The latest FIFA International football standings announced today, see the England football team move four places up the league to share tenth position with Portugal and passing France on the way, who drop down one place to twelfth in this months figures.
This will be seen as a welcome boost for England manager Fabio Capello as [...]

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With a fantastic show by the GB Team at the Beijing Olympics drawing to a close, and Kevin Pietersen offering a much needed boost as the new England Cricket captain and all-round cricket messiah (even though he’s actually South African),  it’s a shame a similar lift hasn’t been forthcoming from the England football team.
England Manager [...]

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FIFA president Sepp Blatter has followed UEFA president Michel Platini by poking his nose into the ongoing Cristiano Ronaldo affair.
Blatter, like Platini says that Ronaldo should be allowed to join Real Madrid if he so desires, but I wonder what their perspective would be if Manchester United were the club making overtures towards Real Madrid.
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Last week FIFA President Sepp Blatter spoke at the 58th FIFA congress in Sydney about, among other things, an idea he calls the “6+5″ rule.
The “6+5 rule”  states that every football team should include a minimum of six ‘home grown’ players in a team at any one time.  The idea received overwhelming support at FIFA’s [...]

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