At the end of the day, Spain took the European Championship by storm, sorry not sorry – olé!
The English have arrived, although they were certainly not greeted with open arms as brawls broke out across the city of Marseille.
Yesterday, England’s Football Association announced the rather controversial choice of Roy Hodgson to take the reins of the national football team from Fabio Capello for the next four years. Hodgson has the experience of a long career in coaching behind him, but can he turn the fans and even the players to his side in order to recapture England’s long gone football glory days?
A Welsh university student has been jailed for 56 days for a “racially-aggravated public order offence” after making offensive tweets about Bolton Wanderers player Fabrice Muamba, who collapsed with heart failure during a FA cup tie with Tottenham Hotspur on March 17. See the full Twitter feed, after the jump.
An FA Cup quarterfinal match between Tottenham Hotspur and Bolton Wanderers came to a shocking halt over the weekend after a player suffered a cardiac arrest during the game. It took nearly two hours to get 23-yeard-old Fabrice Muamba’s heart to work on its own again, and he is currently still fighting for his life.
FourFourTwo is a venerable British football mag, and each year their website runs a survey detailing the bottom line of England’s most popular sport. Here are some of the highlights from this year’s survey.