Minus the Shooting 2010

"Frank Lampard, we can all agree," wrote the Wing Commander of last night's debacle, "has rarely put in a finer performa...

It's not good for England, is it? Rooney's misfiring. Lampard and Gerrard are woeful. The defence is leaden and unconvincing. It...

The size of the task is starting to dawn on Capello. The reverse alchemy of England's performance in World Cup finals left him nonpluss...

My Egyptian friends told me to expect it, and I knew from experience to expect it, but still it was strange: almost all Egyptians were cheer...

What geographical features could England have on their kit? The undulating path of the River Severn? The Lake District's craggy peaks? O...

Mark asks who should be brought in as a football pundit to replace the droning Vuvuzelas of Thought and Comment that the current crop repre...

Listening to yesterday's coverage on BBC Radio 5 live I caught a short discussion by Mark 'Chappers' Chapman and Martin someone...

Could I cope with England winning the World Cup? The boost it would give Cameron; the fact that John Terry and Steven Gerrard would be natio...

... "France will make the quarter-finals." ... "We're always ready to start an autopsy without a body." With his cou...

It sounds as if Gary has already reached stage three of the grieving process described by Martin Samuel in the Mail today. Samuel applies ...

We've now seen 4 goals from Argentina and 3 from Uruguay in the last 24 hours. But before that there were many complaints about the low ...

Amidst the muddle of some roundly criticized punditry on this World Cup (attacked most notably here ), the tournament seems as if it's f...

Another question: did I imagine the following line of TV commentary in the Holland-Denmark game? 'Three hundred years after arriving in ...

Is it just me or is this Youtube video of Maicon's fantastic finish not deliberately aged - as if the slight haze is meant to underline ...

Midway through the first half of the game between Switzerland and Spain, this happened. When I was five or six years old sometimes with my m...

The Spain-Switzerland result today underlined a number of the things I've been trying to say: the 'best' teams don't always ...

I feel as if this World Cup is passing me by. I've watched plenty, and debated plenty, and filled in my wallchart diligently (sans error...

Brazil & North Korea were good, but the air of apprehension still pervades.

Or: why you won't win the World Cup without seven Northerners The London Review of Books is blogging the World Cup, with mixed results. ...