Let me paint you a picture: Qatar 2024 and the home nation, after extended pressure, find themselves clear through with the keeper beat. Then this happens.... Could this be the worst miss ever? Could Harry Redknapp's Grandma score this? It's difficult to say No to any of these questions. Let's just hope that in 12 [.

This is insane Master engraver Graham Short has come up with a unique way of personalising football boots, albeit we can't see it taking off. The miniature engraving expert has etched the names of every England player to find the net at a World Cup from 1950-2010 into the bottom of a metal stud. If [.

Tonight at Old Trafford, Manchester, the latest Group game in the 2011 UEFA Champions League competition kicks off with United facing old enemy Benfica from Portugal. This particular match, as I'm sure it does for many other fans across the globe, evokes memories from a summer evening back in 1968 where all of the lost dreams of those immortal Busby Babes finally came to fruition.

New Zealand vs England Highlights- Women's Football 2011 World Cup is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter

New Zealand vs England Highlights- Women's Football 2011 World Cup is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter New Zealand vs England 2011 Women's World Cup 2011- Group B- 1st July, 2011.

There was once a time when this Croydon-born, Sierra Leone raised central midfield dynamo was captaining West Ham United into the FA Cup final of 2006 to face the might of Liverpool. Reo-Coker, a former England under-21 captain, was the lynchpin in a midfield containing talents such as Yossi Benayoun and Matthew Etherington, yet Reo-Coker still stood out as the main force in the West Ham side.

On the road with the Black Army Elfsborg 2-2 AIK (17:04:11) Regular EFW contributor Andy Hudson hooks up with the Black Army of AIK..... Sweden – the country of cold winters, yellow football shirts, England World Cup opponents, beautiful ladies and expensive beer. Now, pick out the reasons why this fine country makes, for me at least, the perfect location for a European Football Weekend.

If there's one thing I love about Twitter is it's ability to start a full scale debate from one person's tweet. At approximately 10.30 this morning a Spurs fan, Kevin Jones, said "As a welshman I'm not bothered but Michael Dawson is not an England captain".

What has followed in the last hour has seen Michael Dawson's ability to not only be England's captain but also Spurs captain come into question.

Ethan, Rob and the rest of the England World Cup Blog crew are liveblogging England's first match of 2011 (and Lampard's first as captain), today's friendly away at Denmark. Join them and make your opinions known. If you'd like to back those opinions up with a quid or two, visit our Picklive fantasy game and play along.