A post here at the time of the first game against Tunisia set the criteria for this tournament of ‘most importantly of all though England need to play for a change in a manner that makes the nation proud – win or lose’. Well, in the battle against Croatia in this first England […]
Without doubt England reached this semi-final, after 28 years of failures to do so (1990 – Paul Gascoigne’s ‘tears’ game), with nothing less than a full quota of luck [that included a crazy tournament when most the main contenders inexplicably fell by the wayside – Germany [Rank 1] bottom of their Group when […]
Today, in the two Quarter-Finals Sweden [Rank 17] are OUT as are Russia [Rank 66] (yesterday, in the first two Quarter-Finals Ukraine [Rank 17] and Brazil [Rank 2]) were OUT) The feelings of English football fans ‘before’ this afternoon’s tussle with Sweden can best be summed-up by the quote “I don’t think us as a nation will get […]
(Today, in the first two Quarter-Finals: Ukraine [Rank 17] are OUT, as are Brazil [Rank 2]) There is much elation that England has at long last reached the Quarter finals of the World Cup, not least as a result of winning in a penalty shoot-out for the very first time ever, eh? People are getting […]
All our supporters were hoping tonight for this final warm-up against fellow finalists Costa Rica, to show-off an England team that didn’t fall-away in the second half, as they did last Saturday in a 2-1 win against Nigeria, didn’t they? You see, ‘on results’ England was up against a better team here than Nigeria, […]
England play against Nigeria and Costa Rica in two World Cup warm-up friendly games before the tournament kicks off for us against Tunisia [rank 14] in two weeks time Monday. The Nigeria game was played at Wembley this evening, when England scored an early goal and Harry Kane [(captain), 40 goals scored this season […]
Some three years ago America organised a so-called “peace” deal with rogue state Iran (known as Persia before 1935), supposedly to stop them becoming a ‘nuclear power’, in exchange for six world powers [the US, UK, France, Russia, China, and Germany] unfreezing $100 billion of Iranian international assets, cancelling the punishing & biting sanctions […]
British Exit from the European Union [BREXIT] was decided-on by the UK population in a unique Referendum held on 23 June 2016, after the Parliament at Westminster had finally acceded that particular major constitutional decision to the general public voters. Despite the Government’s dire warnings that leaving the EU would harm both the […]
Criminalistics Mugshot line-up [To paraphrase a Shakespeare idiom ‘A plague on ALL your houses’]
The EU well might be viewed in the same light as Dante’s journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven as depicted in the epic ancient poem Divine Comedy, where above the gates of Hell are inscribed with the proverb ‘Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here’ In this poem, Hell is depicted as nine concentric […]
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