Chasing Rainbows: Memories of Euro 96, Part Two
Holland provided the last test of the group stage. Often flattering to deceive, the Dutch were a team at war with each other. Childish in-fighting…
Paul Ince
Can We Not Knock Him? – Part Seven. The Ref’s Got me The Sack. Thank Him For me, Won’t You?
Win or Bust The documentary now reaches its denouement. It was a tv producers dream as footage of the pre-match anthems and crowd reactions overdubbed…
Can We Not Knock Him? Part Six: Poles and Rob Shepherd Taken Apart
The documentary, “An Impossible Job” or “Do I Not Like That”, as it has become known as, missed out the US Cup, which was probably…
Can We Not Knock Him? – Part Five. US Cup 1995, Yanks v Planks
Summer Tour 1995 and in preparation for the World Cup in America the following summer, the USA hosted a four-nation competition with England, Brazil and…
Can We Not Knock Him? Part Four: Boos, Barnes & Bohinen
World Cup Qualification 1994 Three months after the sheer depression of Euro ’92, England travelled to Spain for a friendly. If you thought England had…
Five key moments leading to heartbreak for Scotland on the road to Russia
‘This Time’ was the Scottish FA’s slogan for the qualifying campaign on the road to Russia 2018. But here we are – the morning after…
Would video assisted refereeing stop us savouring the drama of football?
Sometimes in football referees get it wrong. That is part of the game. And for the most part football fans accept this. England fans have…