Category Archives: England National Team

The English Football Association has called on Premier League clubs to give England a boost in the World Cup next summer by not sending Premier League teams on post-season tours in May, like many of the top Premier League clubs … Continue reading →

England are set to play a friendly in Miami on the eve of their 2014 World Cup competition, reports The Daily Mail newspaper tonight. If you’ve been reading World Soccer Talk for a while, you’ll know that this isn’t new news. Last … Continue reading →

Nike has released a brand-new video called ‘England Matters,’ which includes interviews with Wayne Rooney, Jack Wilshere, Theo Walcott and Ashley Cole. The four players discuss the role that the senior England footballers give to the younger players, as well … Continue reading →

English football fans, part time or globe trotting devout followers, are normally a pesimistic group. If one looks at the facts, it is clearly obvious why. A nation claiming to be the founding father of the sport, a soccer obsessed … Continue reading →

West Ham United and England u-21 midfielder Ravel Morrison scored an absolute peach of a goal yesterday in a training session for the England u-21 side ahead of their game versus San Marino. Watch the goal of the weekend here. … Continue reading →

England manager Roy Hodgson said today that goalkeeper Joe Hart will not start in goal during tomorrow’s friendly against Chile at Wembley. Hodgson will choose between Fraser Forster or John Ruddy to start in the net for England. Ruddy has … Continue reading →

England manager Roy Hodgson is the ideal person to root for. After being unable to break into the Crystal Palace first team from 1965-66, Hodgson played non-league soccer with Tonbridge Angels before moving on to Gravesend & Northfleet. At age … Continue reading →

Roy Hodgson has announced his England squad for the upcoming friendlies against Chile and Germany, and has included the Southampton trio of Adam Lallana, Jay Rodriguez and Rickie Lambert in the squad. The squad is as follows: Goalkeepers: Fraser Forster, … Continue reading →

Although nothing official has been announced yet, The FA are in talks with the USSF to finalize a friendly with England to be played on US soil in May or early June. The location of the game is yet to … Continue reading →

Maybe it’s time that the British press should give England manager Roy Hodgson some credit? According to the latest data from the excellent MyFootballFacts.com website, Roy Hodgson now has the best record percentage out of all of the England managers … Continue reading →

The self-loathing elements of the British press have had the short and long knives out for England manager Roy Hodgson for well over a year now. It is obvious that large elements of the media did not want Hodgson to … Continue reading →

England, Spain, Russia and Bosnia-Herzegovina qualified for FIFA World Cup 2014 tonight, joining the teams who have already qualified — Brazil, United States of America, Australia, Japan, Iran, South Korea, Italy, Netherlands, Argentina, Costa Rica, Colombia, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany. In … Continue reading →

World Cup dreams will be realized and destroyed today in the final day of the regular stages of the World Cup qualifying matches around the world. Teams will be battling for automatic qualification, while others will be trying to qualify … Continue reading →

Michael Carrick is expected to start in midfield for England instead of Frank Lampard in the crunch match against Poland at Wembley (3pm ET on FOX Sports 1, for readers in the United States). In training, Carrick has been playing … Continue reading →