England 4-0 Iceland Rice (20'), Mount (24'), Foden (80', 84') Saevarsson (OFF 54') England knew they were finishing 3rd. Iceland knew they were finishing 4th. This was a dead rubber, a dead rubber so dead it was practically fossilised. Mind you – it still had a little...

Belgium 2-0 England Tielemans (10'), Mertens (23') The Premier League has come to feel like the semi-spiritual home of the Belgium national team. Philippe Albert, Vincent Kompany, Eden Hazard, Romelu Lukaku, Toby Alderweireld, Jan Vertonghen – some of the greatest...

England 3-0 Republic of Ireland Maguire (18'), Sancho (31'), Calvert-Lewin (56' pen) If England’s 54 years of major tournament hurt are excruciating heartache, the 35 years without victory over Ireland were a nagging headache. Enter England’s Nurofen footballer: Jack...

Just like that, all's right with the world. Chelsea? Doesn’t know how to concede a goal. Manchester City? Dominated a struggling Blades side that was lucky to concede only one goal. Liverpool? Clawed their way back from a 1-0 deficit to take all three points and...

Slowly, as the years perform their terrible dance, we are losing them. Nobby Stiles passed away on Friday, 30 October, after a battle with both late-stage dementia and prostate cancer.  Illness is no 50-50. If it was, Nobby would still be with us, his afflictions...

Despite already equaling a third of last season’s losses and draws in their first six matches, Liverpool are back in first place (tied with Everton). On a day where they did not look particularly convincing, Klopp’s side forced their way to three points against a...

What a week. And I know I said that last week, but really, what a week. Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal, Tottenham and Leicester all dropped points. Kepa is no longer Chelsea’s starting keeper. He’s not even their second string. Hell, he’s not even their *third* string,...

It was a tight set from England. They played all the classics: Danger Down the Right, Shaky Between the Sticks (Jordan's Little Arms), and everyone’s favourite chart-topper, Soul-Crushing Disappointment. With club football in a vomit-inducing, Big Picture tailspin,...

FT: England 2-1 Belgium HT: 1-1 (Lukaku 16”) (Rashford 39” pen) (Mount 64”) Following England often feels less like watching competitive sport and more like a fact-finding mission to find out how good the national team really are. Belgium are the best team in the...

Thursday 8 OCT Wembley Stadium, London  Full-time:England 3:0 Wales Calvert-Lewin (26' minutes), Coady (53' minutes) Ings (63' minutes) There were no velvet-throated Welsh there to sing away the sorrow. There were no space-hopper-bellied English to glory in the...

What a week. To someone new to the Premier League, the big six clubs would have been Chelsea, West Ham, Tottenham, Aston Villa, Newcastle, and Everton. Manchester United were slaughtered. Liverpool got trounced. Let me rephrase that: Liverpool got beaten so badly that...

Week three is finished (I know, it was finished three days ago, I’m slacking), and as I’m writing this, I can’t help but think that Leicester are looking like the Leicester of last season pre-covid. They’re clinical, have a great offence, and a stingy defense....