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  Watch out, the USA’s about World Cup fever has almost reached boiling point with countdowns now in hours not days. England fanatics have already painted their roofs and adorned questionable replica shirts, but an England loss in the group stages could change things in an instant. England haven’t lost a World Cup group game since France 1998 when defeat to Romania essentially de-railed their campaign. Back then [...]

Fabio Capello showed the first signs he might be feeling a bit of pressure this morning, as he lost his temper with photographers at the England training camp. Apparently he was upset that the photographers had gotten inside the building and taken photos of the medical facilities and so on. Brilliantly, after shouting them down, [...]

Opportunities to meet former England internationals don’t crop up every day, but when they do you take them – however short the notice. Last Wednesday evening brought a flurry of emails and last Thursday morning brought an interview with Martin Keown (and Andy Townsend) as a part of a Lucozade sponsored event – I’ve come a long way since [...]

England beat club side Platinum Stars 3-0, in their final run out before the World Cup match against the U.S.A on Saturday, and most importantly of all we have had no fresh injury worries. So what did we, or indeed Capello, learn from the match? Probably not that much. It was an easy win, obviously [...]

As we move closer to Saturday’s contest between England and the USA in their opening Group C match in Rustenburg, South Africa, the world’s media are in a feeding frenzy trying to dig up as much news as possible to fill their daily reporting quotas. One of the [...]

Next Saturday, at Royal Bafokeng Stadium, Rustenburg, South Africa, England’s 2010 World Cup campaign begins in earnest against the USA in a Group C game that could decide who goes through to the knockout stages as Group winner. Let’s take a closer look at the USA squad and see what [...]

The England World Cup blog had the chance to interview Andy Townsend and Martin Keown yesterday at a Lucozade sponsored World Cup media event scheduled just before the two flew off to be part of BBC and ITV coverage of the tournament in South Africa. We know what you’re thinking, “Lucozade? Isn’t that a conflict of interests? [...]

Rio Ferdinand is officially out of the World Cup. He sustained a knew injury earlier on in training, right at the end of the session, and has apaprently done knee ligement damange, that will see him out of the tournament. Michael Dawson will almost certainly be called up to replace him, while Steven Gerrard will [...]

Here we go. The rollercoaster has well and truly started – England have their first injury problem of the tournament. Rio Ferdinand picked up a knee injury in the final minutes of training and has had to head to hospital to see how serious it is. Knee problems are really hard to judge, so if [...]

o after the endless speculation in the comments here at the England world Cup Blog, I can reveal to you the actual squad numbers the players will wear out in South Africa. The most interesting ones are of course the ones where we aren’t sure who is going to start – David James has been [...]