Buzzin Football

After a dismal start to the season, the knives were being sharpened.  After Liverpool’s shock 3rd round defeat to League Two Northampton in the Carling Cup this week, they were being thrown.  No club has won the League Cup (and all its pseudonyms) more times than Liverpool, and even though Roy Hodgson left his star [...]

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Using data collected over the last two years of competitive international games, Castrol Performance have analysed some of the key individual head to head areas of tonight’s Euro 2012 qualifier between England and Bulgaria.
On paper the statistics are stacked in England’s favour and it would appear that Bulgaria need a miracle to get anything out [...]

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As the starting eleven were announced over the Wembley speaker system before tonight’s England friendly with Hungary Wayne Rooney and the three Chelsea players – John Terry, Frank Lampard and Ashley Cole’s names were greeted with sizeable boos, though it must be said, the majority of the crowd didn’t join in.
England started well with a [...]

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What a change a few days makes; a change in the attitude, the personnel, Fabio Capello’s mentality and the result. Four more performances like this and England could well end up winning the 2010 South Africa World Cup.
There wasn’t one specific reason for the change in attitude, but it was a culmination of many reasons. [...]

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After two very disappointing performances in South Africa so far, England need nothing less than a clear victory to progress into the next round and to boost their own morale as well as the England fans; their performances thus far have been both shambolic and passionless and bears no resemblance to the England team that [...]

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