Bob Peedle, Chairman of the Royal Society of St George, has criticised Wayne Rooney for not singing the British national anthem before England games.
Apparently, Rooney doesn’t know the words which Peedle thinks is disgraceful and has offered to teach them to him.
The Royal Society of St George is there to promote England and the Commonwealth, singing […]

England have lost to Scotland in the Six Nations.
I don’t mind England losing (I’d rather we didn’t of course) just as long as it’s not to Scotland!
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Andy “Anyone But England” Murray has been beaten again and almost got censured for swearing.

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England had a blistering start with 10 points on the board in the first 13 minutes, 5 of which came from what will probably be the try of the tournament by Paul Sachi.
Jonny Wilkinson’s foot was perfect as usual.
England have played an excellent first half and the statistics don’t match the performance.  France have the majority of […]

Saturday’s defeat at the hands of the mutton munchers was made slightly more palatable by yesterday’s demolition of the sweaty socks by the cheese eating surrender monkey’s.
Our friends north of the border lost by 21 points putting them firmly at the bottom of the table on points difference after the opening fixtures.  Hopefully they’ll stay there […]

It’s only 5 minutes until England’s opening Six Nations match against Wales.
Not so long ago I’d have been looking forward to this game to see how much of a pasting we give the mutton munchers but just lately Wales have become a force to contend with and it’ll be a challenging game.
Jonny Wilkinson is playing but […]

Inspired by Alfie, I put pen finger to paper keyboard once again and asked the RFU to stop playing God Save the Queen before England matches.
Hi,
Our glorious leader has pronounced that deciding which national anthem to play before sporting events is not a matter for the British government and is, instead, the responsibility of the […]

Bloody hell.  When was the last time England didn’t qualify for a European Championship?  Other than when we were banned from European football for having slightly more troublemakers than Vatican United and about 5 million percent less than, for instance, Turkey or Poland.  But that’s another story.
England lost 3-2 to Croatia last night and failed to […]

This is the match that matters.  Israel have to beat Russia to give England a chance of qualifying for next years Euro 2008.  Something you’ll not see very often on this blog - I’m supporting Israel!
Israel has taken an early lead, currently winning 1-0.
Update:
Israel won 2-1 which means England are still in with a chance.
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I only wish the match wasn’t on Sky Sports so I could cheer Italy on.
Italy are leading Scotland 1-0 in the second half.
Update:
18:24 - Noooooooooooooo, Scotland have equalised.
Update:
Scotland lost 2-1 to Italy and are out of the Euro 2008 competition.

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The Great Britain rugby team beat New Zealand today.
The level of interest in the British team is so low that I didn’t even know it was happening or had taken place until it was on the news and it only made the news because the winning try was so farcical.
I wonder how much having a […]

Anglophobia permeates into all aspects of life in the Undemocratic Republic of New Britain, as evidenced by this post on the CEP blog.
Despite comprising only 15% of the population and being responsible for only 18% of the medals won at the last Commonwealth Games, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland between them have 39 staff dedicated […]

Well, I’d like to say that England outplayed France and the victory was well deserved but it was a bit of a fluke to be honest.
France and England both played pretty poorly interspersed with some moments of excellent play.  The highlight of the match - other than beating France and getting to the final of course […]

Oh dear, Argentina knocked Scotland out of the rugby world cup.  Sadly, it does mean we won’t have the opportunity to dump the master race out of the competition ourselves.  Oh well …

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… but England are proving to be more than a match for Australia in the first 25 minutes.
Australia have just dropped another scrum, they’re making silly mistakes and England are dominating the offence.
Of course, we’ve seen this all before and experienced the disappointment as England lose focus but at this point in time England are […]

England showed some real talent at times during tonight’s match against Tonga - it was a pleasure to watch.
Tonga scored first from a penalty, England equalised and then Tonga scored a try.  It was looking a bit dodgy at first but England settled in and played some quality rugby.
That said, Tonga were very dangerous at […]

The All Blacks gave Scotland a going over in the rugby today with Scotland failing to score.
Thank god we’re not going to be the only home nation to get a wooden spoon!
The most interesting thing about the whole game was the atmosphere.  Or lack of it - the crowd were virtually silent the whole way […]

Britishness Brown, the non-mandate British Prime Minister, was too busy to phone Steve McLaren to congratulate him on England’s 3-0 victory over Russia last week but managed to find the time to phone Alex McLeish, the Scottish manager, to congratulate him on their defeat of France on the same night.
Even though No Mandate Brown professes to be British […]

No Mandate Brown found time in his busy schedule to phone the manager of the Scottish national football team, Alex McLeish, to congratulate him on Scotland’s victory over France.
He didn’t get round to phoning Steve McLaren to congratulate him on England’s victory over Russia thought because he was too busy although when asked, a spokesman […]

Bit of a dilema - England are playing Israel in the football and the USA in the rugby.
Both matches should be a walkover, the rugby especially so, but which will be the best game?
Our teams both need to be careful when attacking though.  A shove in the penalty area could very well see the Israeli’s […]

Apologies to those of you who have no interest in Shrewsbury Town or football in general but I just have to mention Shrewsbury’s second game of the season - Tuesday night’s game against Championship team Colchester which Shrewsbury won 1-0.  It was very nearly 1-1 in extra time but the goalkeeper managed to save a […]

The Tartan Army have taken time out from buying football shirts for every team England might play in the next 12 months and learning the words to Irish republican songs and have set up a website opposed to the creating of a British football team.
The No Team GB website has the support of the Association […]

Watched Shrewsbury get beaten by Bristol Rovers today on Sky Sports in the League 2 play-off finals.
Shrewsbury scored within 3 minutes and dominated the game - especially in the second half where they had approaching three quarters possession and twice as many attempts on goal as Bristol.  But it wasn’t to be.  Bristol played really well […]

Shrewsbury Town 2 - 1 MK Dons

Just to show you that I can talk about something other than politics, let me just give a brief mention to the passing of an institution - the Gay Meadow.
No longer will English football have a resident fisherman ready to retrieve lost footballs from the River Severn and football addicts will have to find a new […]

A fortnight ago I reported that our masters in the European Federation wanted to replace our national football teams with a single British football team.
There was some scepticism in the comments which is perfectly understandable but it’s reassuring to note that the dead tree press have finally caught up with this article in the Birmingham Post.  When […]

The European Federation yesterday voted to abolish the English football team and replace it with a British football team.
MEPs were asked to vote on 180 proposals in less than 90 minutes, once of which was for the English, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish football teams to be replaced by a British football team.  UKIP MEPs […]

MEP’s will vote this week on proposals to enforce the flying of the EU rag and singing of the EU “national” anthem at European football championships.
It’s not clear whether the proposal is to have it playing instead of national anthems of the countries involved or whether it will be played in addition to the national […]

England play Ireland today in the Rugby Six Nations at Croke Park, the site of the killing - by British soliders - of 12 members of the public.
The killings took place 87 years ago and were followed by a series of reprisals by IRA terrorists.  Despite this all having taken place outside of the living memory […]

Arsenal Football club has banned national flags from its stadium after some greeks complained about a solitary Turkish Cypriot flag in the crowd.
Arsenal says:
“Arsenal as a club prides itself on being inclusive with respect to all nationalities, cultural and ethnic groups.”
“We are asking that only Arsenal flags, without any national emblems, are displayed within the […]

Well, predictably we got mullered by the kiwi’s today.
To be fair to England, the second half was pretty evenly matched and if we hadn’t been so desperately behind coming out into the second half they wouldn’t have got the opportunities that allowed them to consolodate.
Out of 29 matches between England and New Zealand, we have […]

A tricky match for England tomorrow as they take on the mighty All Blacks.
The match is live on the BBC1 and BBC Radio 5 Live at 3:30pm tomorrow.
Do we stand a chance of winning?  We’ve lost 21 of our 28 matches against the All Blacks and since winning the world cup we’ve had a particularly […]

How can the 4th ranked team in the world lose 2-0 to Croatia?  Fair enough, Croatia are a decent team but England is … well, England.
Bring back Sven and Beckham and lets start winning again.
The only consolation is that Ukraine beat North Britain 2-0 as well.

North Britain plays Ukraine tonight.  The match is live on BBC2 … come on Uuuuuuukraine.

England are playing Macedonia tonight in their latest Euro 2008 qualifier.
As Tommy English says, are you ready to be embarassed by the lack of an English national anthem?
I got an apology from BBC Subtitling last time for calling the British national anthem the English national anthem.  Let’s see if they make the same “mistake” again.
Pop […]

Tim Henman has beaten Andy Murray in the first round of the Thailand Open.
That’s a shame.

Normally I would rather stick pins in my eyes than support the Americans at anything but for the Ryder Cup I’m prepared to make the sacrifice and shout for Team America … Fuck Yeah!
I can’t stand watching the news or reading the back pages of the papers and seeing that bloody EU rag representing English […]

Andy Murray, the North British tennis player who supports anyone but England, has been knocked out of the US Open.
What a shame.