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Literally. There was always something very rock n roll about Slaven Bilić. He was one of the last professional footballers who unashamedly smoked, puffing his way through a respectable career at Hajduk Split, Karlsruher, Eveton and West Ham. Now he’s very successfully managing the Croatian national team, but when he’s not conquering England home and [...]

Seems Fabio Capello’s appointment as England boss has caused a huge sigh of relief in Roberto Donadoni’s house. It was an odd situation to have such an experienced manager out of work while such an inexperienced manager was in charge of the Azzurri. But Capello not only grabbed the (well-paying) England job with both hands, [...]

Remember this bit of madness from June? It’s 3-3 in the closing minutes of the Denmark vs Sweden Euro 2008 qualifier. Denmarks’ Christian Poulsen punches Sweden’s Markus Rosenberg in his special spot, so German referee Herbert Fandel (left) quite rightly awards Sweden a penalty and sends Poulsen for an early bath. But one Drunken Danish [...]

Luis Aragones may look grumpy, but he’s feeling confident. He thinks his Spain team are ready to go all the way at Euro 2008 after failing to fulfill their potential in recent tournaments. Here’s what he told sports paper Marca today:
“Until now teams like Italy, France, Brazil and Argentina have been better than us, [...]

For all the talk about tactics, injuries, blundering goakeepers, foreigners and plastic pitches, the one thing England players definitely need to work on is how they spend their free time. Roy Keane said as much when he labeled certain England players “big heads who are side-tracked by stuff away from football. We all know which [...]

The Euro 2008 draw was made this morning, and UEFA’s quite literally potty system produced an odd result. Before the draw in Lucerne, hosts Austria and Switzerland and holders Greece were in Pot 1 along with Holland, meaning the four nations were the top seeds and would definitely be in separate groups. Meanwhile, minnows like [...]

After too many tragic deaths in recent years UEFA are taking extra precautions to make sure every player at Euro 2008 has been thoroughly checked for heart problems. There’ll be cardiac screenings for every single player involved in Austria and Switzerland next summer in an attempt to catch problems with footballer’s tickers early, and team [...]

Seems the draw for 2010 World Cup qualifying groups wasn’t the only thing decided in Durban last weekend. The Republic of Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland were busy ironing out the details of the Celtic Cup, similar to the old British Home Nations Championship but with England replaced by Ireland. The FA chiefs of [...]

Bad news for those Chinese internet pirates. While many of us have enjoyed watching football via their legally questionable, never quite big enough and heavily pixelated streams, it seems UEFA is finally catching on to the fact that there’s a demand for watching realistically priced football matches online. So for Euro 2008, every game will [...]