By the time the 2018 World Cup gets underway in Russia next summer, Birmingham City fans will be hoping that their Championship status will have been preserved and they can sit back, enjoy the tournament and cheer on their national team. In the meantime, they can look forward to the Read More
I love the European Championships. Far more than the World Cup, which has too many teams, too many meaningless matches and goes on too long. The Euros are just about perfect for a football competition. Nearly every day there is a mouth-watering fixture such as Germany v Portugal, Italy v Read More
Merseypete is a regular on the forum on Joys and Sorrows. He has sent us this article looking back at 1966, very topical with Sunday’s clash fast approaching! Enjoy! It was bound to happen – England versus Germany. It brings back many of the same memories for most of us, Read More
Here is Bazza’s latest Telegraph article on the World Cup. First published here. Well what a right pickle some of the more fancied nations have got themselves into during this World Cup competition so far. The travails of England have caused many a shake of the grey locks, wobble of Read More
England have been drawn to face the United States, Algeria and Slovenia in the group stage, (group C), of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. What an easy draw, we can be concentrating on who we will get after qualifying with 9 points. It could well be Germany, as Read More
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