English football jargon you hate
let's have it for me, when a journalist says " Rooney will RELISH his chance...." or " a FAMOUS victory" , when the game is just finished

English Football Teams Anagrams
Arsenal Football Club - Cruel banal footballs Aston Villa - Vital loans Barnsley Football Club - Fatal bully on cobblers - Flabby brutal colonels Birmingham City - I’m marching by it Blackburn Rovers - Verbal cork burns Blackpool lose - Lockable

English football hang your head in shame
whilst man utd announce huge rises for some of their players, Rotherham could go the wall for a few weeks wages of EPL stars. sums up all that is wrong with the game imho

S4C english commentary
Anyone know how to get rid of the "English Commentary Back Up to exit" sign from the bottom of the screen when using the English commentary option on S4C?

English football lacks technical ability and tactics
All I see when I watch the premium league is headless chicken running hoping to get a lucky position, no tactical awareness what so ever except for a few players (RVP, Romeu and Modric to name some).

The Media: Damaging England's football since 1992 Part 1
Andy Gray, Henry Winter, Jamie Redknapp, Alan Shearer, Patrick Barclay. They are just a few of the big names currently sat in a position of power within society. They aren’t members of the Royal family, they aren’t members of Parliament. They aren’t even

English and English-related questions
Hi everyone! I thought of creating this topic in order to ask some English-related questions which often arise in my course of learning the language. Here comes the first question, which was actually passed over to me by my friend who is currently

Polish football, an English view.
Now I know some of you will have your stereotypes over the poles, but what I have seen so far from from Polish football and the fans as impressed me. They always say that there is a better atmosphere come from the 'smaller' clubs well in this case its

End of English football's golden era, a new look English
Who said the future for the national England team looked bleak? The second week of the English Premier League gave a strong case for young English players who were adjudged unfit to replace their much vaunted and overrated seniors in the national team for

Football Rivalries Report
I only just found this, it's all about the top 20 local Derbies in England, I'm sure most of you have read it as it's from 2008, but if you haven't I found it quite interesting. http://www.footballpools.com/football-fever/Rivalries_Report_2008.pdf

Is Zampa the craziest football character on the planet?
His nuts. 2 weeks I think after an extension Mangia gets sacked. Palermo have sacked their coach 3 times this season I think. Zamparini is a mad man. Nobody can escape his axe

Premiership spenders league.
Done completely on net spend... 1 Manchester United 35 million 2 T*tenham Hotspur 34 million 3 Liverpool 30 million 4 Sunderland 26 million 5 Man City 25 million 6 Portsmouth 14 million 7 Newcastle 13 million 8 Fulham 12 million 9 Chelsea 1

How Capello will teach the English to play football
Top article in the FT today Footballing home truths to be delivered from abroad By Simon Kuper Published: January 26 2008 02:00 | Last updated: January 26 2008 02:00 Sometimes a country is so lacking in skills that it needs to fly in foreign

Top English goal scorers
I thought I would do something like what I did for Europe for league football and England and list the top 10 goal scorers and ties. While he will not be in the list it should be noted that Matt Tubbs scored 37 goals for Crawley Town in the Football

Manchester City announce biggest ever loss in English football
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/nov/18/manchester-city-biggest-ever-loss Manchester City have announced the biggest loss in English football history, £194.5m for the most recent financial year. The loss on that huge scale, bankrolled by the