Glen Johnson has pulled out of the England squad to face Brazil on Saturday in Doha after picking up a slight injury in Liverpool's 2-2 draw against Birmingham City at Anfield on Monday night.
The 25-year-old played the full 90 minutes of the Premier League game before joining up with his England team-mates, where he underwent a routine recovery session while the rest of the squad trained at London Colney. Click to continue reading...

There are several international friendlies on Saturday, November 14, 2009 while the final 2010 World Cup Final spots are determined. One of the more high profile friendlies is England v Brazil which will be at the Khalifa International Stadium in Doha, Qatar. Both nations have qualified for next summer's world cup and are two of the favorites to advance far into the tournament.

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The standard of Arsenal's goalkeepers has come into question but changes in the modern game mean there is more to the position than shot-stopping.
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If goalkeepers are crazy then imagine having to summon the sparse vestiges of your sanity to defend three of them.

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1. Congratulations to Robert Green, who went fishing on Saturday afternoon and caught a Kieran Richardson. 2. Rafa Benitez's chances of getting the Right Guard contract have gone. Now that is a man under pressure. 3. With nine red cards this was officially the dirtiest weekend in Premier League history. Click to continue reading...

After the late equaliser in the Champions League game last week the manager and a number of the players went on record saying we couldn't afford to be that sloppy again. We would have to learn from the mistake we made.

Sadly for us that lesson hasn't been learned yet and while a draw away from home isn't a bad result on paper, the circumstances of yesterday's 2-2 with West Ham make the result most frustrating.

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Arsenal threw away the chance of a fifth straight Premier League win as West Ham battled back to earn a 2-2 draw at Upton Park on Sunday.
The Gunners had looked in complete control following first-half goals from Robin van Persie and William Gallas.
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There is reason to be concerned.

If AZ Alkmaar was a foreshadowing, the Gunners did their best to not heed the warning. � Anyone who has watched this team over the past five years knew what was coming, both in the Netherlands and at Upton Park. � It's just too predictable.

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Coming from a long-time Arsenal fan, this article is not easy to write; but at the same time, if any fan of football today chose to watch Arsenal vs West Ham, you would have seen a pattern like this:

Arsenal take the lead through an attacking move with less than 6 passes (the most common move of scoring a goal, as stated in Inverting The Pyramid) and partly due to an error by the England first-choice goalkeeper, Robert Green.

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I officially have no voice. It is not very nice and I am resorting to writing insults down and showing them to the intended recipient rather than just shouting it at them. Some people might say its karma, I just call it a bloody annoyance, and a painful one at that.

So we make the short trip to Upton Park today and it has been the scene of many a hardfought game over the past few years and on a few occasions we have come out of it with a big fat 0 points.

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Welcome to Ask The Oppo! Today we talk to Dave Hunt, an Upton Park season ticket holder from Aylesbury, Bucks...

Eldo71: You lot finished 9th last season, played some reasonable football along the way and the hopes for the new season were high under Gianfranco Xola and Steve Clarke.

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The formidable midfield duo

Upton Park is where our focus is today. Gianfranco Zola's West Ham faces exactly the same turmoil as Arsenal's previous opponent, AZ Alkmaar, financially stuttering that is.They have sold close to 10 players since last year just to offset some of the monetary difficulties but have kept virtually the core of the team in Robert Green, Matthew Upson, Scott Parker, David Noble and Carlton Cole.

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Jogaram pelas eliminatórias da Europa, na cidade de Dnepropetrovsk, no estádio Dnipro Arena, para um público de 31.000 pessoas, as seleções da Ucrânia (22º no ranking da FIFA) e Inglaterra (7º no ranking da FIFA).
Antes desse jogo, as 2 seleções apenas jogaram:
31-05-2000 - Inglaterra 2x0 Ucrânia (Amistoso)
18-08-2004 - Inglaterra 3x0 Ucrânia (Amistoso)
01-04-2009 - Inglaterra 2x1 Ucrânia (Eliminatórias Copa do Mundo)
O quarteto de arbitragem foi assim definido:
Árbitro: Damir SKOMINA-SVN
Primeiro Assistente: Primoz AHAR-SVN
Segundo Assistente: Marko STANCIN-SVN
Quarto Árbitro: Darko CEFERIN-SVN
Aos 12 minutos de jogo, ocorreu a primeira expulsão no jogo, do goleiro 1, Robert GREEN, da seleção da Inglaterra. Click to continue reading...

.The eight successive International win came to a halt with a loss away to Ukraine in Dnipro Stadium on Oct 10. Ukraine won the match with one goal scored by Sergei Najarenko at 29 minutes. Coach Fabio Capello was disappointed as England failed to impress with big names like Gareth Barry, Wayne Rooney, Rio Ferdinand, [. Click to continue reading...

Fabio will be looking for a good performance to end a great World Cup qualifying campaign.

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England manager Fabio Capello will start with Gabriel Agbonlahor and Peter Crouch for Wednesday's World Cup qualifier against Belarus at Wembley.

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An ulterior motive for England keeper's red card? Last time Robert Green faced Belarus it put paid to his World Cup dream. The England goalkeeper handed the opposition a goal when he injured himself taking a goal-kick. The injury ruled him out of the 2006 World Cup, so maybe he is better out of harm's way [. Click to continue reading...

Either it's a harbinger for the misery to come or the prologue to one of the greatest sports upsets ever, but� � England� will arrive in South Africa next summer brandishing new lows in their quality of goalkeeping. Never before have the� Three Lions been represented at the World Cup by a keeper who has just finished the season with a side that got relegated. Click to continue reading...

Weirdly, I'm kind of excited for England vs Belarus. Neither team has anything to play for, but with Rooney and Gerrard out injured (or as The Fiver put it yesterday: "Wayne Rooney has pulled out of the game against Belarus at Wembley with a severe case of having his wages paid by Manchester United.

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Steven Gerrard will miss England's final World Cup qualifying match against Belarus at Wembley tomorrow after limping out of training this morning.
Fabio Capello, the England manager, confirmed the Liverpool captain had been sent back to his club to have his troublesome groin injury assessed. Click to continue reading...

England wraps up its UEFA 2010 World Cup Qualifying on Wednesday, October 14, 2009. Neither team has anything play for as Belarus is out of contention for qualification and England has already clinched their ticket to South Africa. The match will be televised on ITV in the UK and Fox Soccer Channel in the USA.

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Do excuse me while I momentarily don my England hat: this missive, from one of the souls frequently to be found loitering around AANP Towers, appeared on football365.com earlier today:

Whatever the rights and wrongs of Rio's concentration lapse, the curious manner in which Green was sent off, the withdrawal of Lennon and the fact that we lost, it strikes me as far more useful than if we'd played with 11 and coasted to a comfy victory.

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Apologies for the predictable headline. But Mr. Ferdinand's moment of Sunday league defending madness, which led to Robert Green's sending off and should have led to Ukraine's first goal (poor Shevchenko put the pen wide) seems to have more or less cost us this game.

As I say seems to, because I didn't watch.

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1. Even great defenders can forget how to defend Rio Ferdinand picked up from his shocker in the Manchester derby last month with another somewhat dubious display of decision-making as Robert Green became England's first dismissal of the Capello era. However, the game presented a perfect ‘can do no wrong' opportunity for the English: win [. Click to continue reading...

In the opening minutes of Saturday's Ukraine v England match, England keeper Robert Green was forced to scurry out of his goal as the Ukrainian fans hurled flares onto the pitch. Once the threat of being pegged with a fireball and burning alive subsided, the unnerved goalkeeper promptly went on to earn the first red card for England since Wayne Rooney in the last World Cup.

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A brief summary of each Bolton Wanderers player who has been on international duty this weekend.

England U21 6 – 3 Macedonia U21

Fabrice Muamba came on for Peterborough United's Danny Rose with 20 minutes to go. Unfortunately Muamba's most notable contribution seems to be that he may have injured Micah Richards when he collided with the Manchester City defender.

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After Robert Green was sent off against Ukraine yesterday afternoon for England (mainly thanks to Rio Ferdinand). Boss Fabio Capello has called up Man United goalkeeper Ben Foster to the England squad.
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The moment that England's chances of winning the 2010 World Cup ended came in the fifteenth minute in Dnepropetrovsk yesterday.
At that time, for the second occasion this season in England internationals, Rio Ferdinand, already well versed in defensive shenanigans at Old Trafford, did huge favours for David "Calamity" James, Key Sports agents and bookmakers throughout the land. Click to continue reading...

In an exciting day and evening of World Cup qualifiers across the globe, Côte d'Ivoire, Mexico, Paraguay, Serbia, Denmark, Germany and Italy qualify for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
In Europe, England lost their 100% record in Group 6 after goalkeeper Robert Green was dismissed early in the first half and Nazarenko's deflected goal was enough for the hosts in a match marred by flares thrown from the crowd. Click to continue reading...

The ignominious sending off of Robert Green just 15 minutes into the game seemed ominous.England's perfect record of winning all eight of their World Cup qualifiers was punctured by a defeat in Ukraine Dnipropetrovsk. Serhiy Nazarenko 29th minute deflected goal gave Ukraine a 1-0 win over Fabio Capello's 10-men team at the Dnipro Stadium. Click to continue reading...

England's 100% FIFA World Cup 2010 qualifying record came to an end today when they went down 0-1 at the Ukraine. Goalkeeper Robert Green was ejected after only 13 minutes for a foul on Artem Milevskiy. Former Chelsea striker Andriy Shevchenko sent substitute goalie David James the wrong way� on the ensuing penalty kick but struck the [. Click to continue reading...

It was another full day of World Cup Qualifying including Ukraine hosting England on Saturday in the UEFA region. England has already clinched their spot next summer while Ukraine is looking to place 2nd to win a playoff spot. Here's a full recap of the match along with video highlights for the match on Saturday, October 10, 2009.

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Ukraine toppled an average England side and put themselves in a great position to overhaul Croatia and take second spot in Group 6.

Robert Green Sent off

Shevchenko Missed Penalty

Flares Thrown Onto Pitch

1-0 Nazerenko

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Ukraine toppled an average England side and put themselves in a great position to overhaul Croatia and take second spot in Group 6.

Robert Green Sent off

Shevchenko Missed Penalty

Flares Thrown Onto Pitch

1-0 Nazerenko

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Firstly, apologies that we've missed a couple of weeks on the Premiership front due to obligations elsewhere but as England have their last qualifying games for the 2010 World Cup coming up and it would be missing the point of the entire blog for to ignore them, we're back for a two part preview of the qualifiers that are taking place all over the world over the next week or so.

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Where did all the heroes go?

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David James is as old as Methuselah(officially), Ben Foster has hands made out of butter (official), Paul Robinson still bears the scars of previous England and Tottenham gaffes, Robert Green and Chris Kirkland aren't considered big enough names, so just who is England's number one?

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As we enter into another International break, many Hammers fans will quietly be asking themselves that exact same question. Inspired by Nick Frost's (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Spaced) twitter feed over the weekend, I quickly realized what a passionate yet disheartened bunch the Hammers supporters are this year.

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