No sooner had Sunderland spent big money to bring in striker Steven Fletcher from Wolverhampton Wanderers, than they did it again to sign someone to improve the supply he can expect at the Stadium of Light. Manchester City and England winger Adam Johnson has become Martin O’Neill’s latest signing for the Premier League club and adds to their strength on the flanks – a classic O’Neill feature, of course. Sebastian Larsson and James McClean have some sturdy new competition.
Tottenham Hotspur and England striker Jermain Defoe has temporarily left the England squad at UEFA Euro 2012 and flown home to London following the death of his father.
England’s final preparations for UEFA Euro 2012 will take place at Wembley this coming Saturday afternoon in the shape of a friendly match against Belgium. The game presents plenty of talking points, one of which is the testing of goal-line technology by the makers of Hawk-Eye.
Roy Hodgson’s first game in charge of England was a low key affair, nestled alongside Eurovision in the television schedule – actual human people watch that garbage, apparently – on an evening far more conducive to the first legitimate barbecuing opportunity of the summer. So as England stepped out onto the field at Oslo’s Ullevaal Stadion on Saturday the television audience may well have been limited to viewers with acute back pain and only four television channels in their new flats. Guilty as charged.
Supporting the England national football team from a fresh perspective.
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