Robinson Plays down England Chances

Paul Robinson, the Blackburn Rovers goalkeeper who earned an England national football team recall for the 2010 World Cup, says he wants to focus on continuing with his form at his football club and then see what happens to his chances of playing for England football team.

The 29 year old goalkeeper won his last cap in the European Championship qualifiers defeat against Russia back in 2007.

The official reason which has ruled Ben Foster out is a chest injury.



England coach Fabio Capello witnessed first hand Robinson's performance against Arsenal where he was beaten no less than 6 times! Not at all a good performance to show to your coach.

And why the hell does Capello go to these matches? He just brings in an unlucky charm. I hope we do manage an England 11 that represents England at the football World Cup in South Africa!


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Michael Owen's WorldCup Chances Diminish After Injury

Imagine that you are a talented football player but struggling to retain your place in the national football team. You find out there is a football match coming up where you will be playing and the coach of the national football team will be watching you from the stands! What better opportunity can you ask for?

Well, you cannot ask for a better chance to impress the coach than that. The Manchester United striker Michael Owen had a similar chance the other night against Wolfsburg in Manchester United's champions league fixture. And though it was the best chance to impress the coach, Michael Owen had a disastrous time in the field. He was seen limping off the ground in front of Fabio Capello, the English National team's coach. This happened when Owen had been on the field for only 20 minutes.



Manchester United's coach Alex Fergusan blamed the wet surface for Owen's injury. He also revealed that that Michael Owen had suffered a slight groin injury after training for the UEFA champions league fixture on Sunday. He pointed out that even though these things happen to footballers and he was not really worried about it, the injury would still keep Owen out for two to three weeks. He will therefore miss Manchester United's English Premier League fixtures against Bolton and Sunderland

The most worrying part of the whole Owen episode is that Owen will be unable to take part in England's World Cup qualifiers against Ukraine and Belarus. Many fear this will mean that Owen might not become a part of Capello's plans for the World Cup in South Africa next summer.

This is not only frustrating for Michael Owen, but also for his fans who thought the striker would find his old flair after arriving at Manchester United's Old Trafford Stadium. The future doesn't look good for Michael Owen. The most frustrating part of this all is that Michael can only wait and see how his fate is decided.

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Mr. Capello, Take One Million Now...and One When You Complete The Job - FA

Fabio Capello, the England football team's coach, was a happy man when FA announced he will be pocketing £1m after making sure the England team makes it to the trip to South Africa. And according to the terms of his contract, he will receive another £1m if England end up winning the football world cup in 2010.

Capello is already among the highest paid football coaches in the world with a salary of £4.8m a year. However, with England's history of World Cup campaigns, no one can say whether it's a sound investment or not.

IF England win the football World Cup, ...and i say IF, then a huge bonus pool will also be shared among the players. David Beckham, John Terry, and other senior players plan to hold talks with the FA in the coming weeks, with their demand likely to be about £300,000 per man! Well, whether they do something worthwhile at the World Cup or not, they certainly are ensuring that they don't lose out on the revenue generating opportunities that the World Cup will bring with it...

The staggering amount of money handed out to the football players will mean FA could well spend about £10m on bonuses alone. However this amount seems small change when one considers the amount of revenue FA will generate through commercials and broadcasting. ITV and Setanta have agreed to pay £275m and £150m respectively for four year contracts to broadcast England and FA Cup matches.

And if you thought this is too much money, remember that these deals were made when Steve McLaren was coaching a struggling England team, so the FA hopes future deals will be much more lucrative!

International Stories...and Premier League stars!

England avoided an embarrassing prospect for their football team when they thrashed Croatia 5-1 in their football World Cup qualifying match at Wembley stadium. Needing just a draw to make the trip to South Africa, England came out all guns blazing and left no doubt as to which was the better team on the pitch.

England were enormously helped by their Premier League superstars, Chelsea midfielder Lampard and Liverpool striker Steven Gerrard, who scored two goals each. The two goal scorer’s were two of the only three survivors from the football side that was beaten in Euro 2008 by Croatia.

The fifth goal was added by Manchester United's Wayne Rooney after Arsenal striker Eduardo pulled one back for the Croatians.

This meant that all the goals in the match were scored by players belonging to one of the ‘mighty four’ in the English Premier League!

Russia beat a spirited Wales side 3-1 and are now targeting the top spot in group four. This was another game where some Premier League players were seen in action. James Colley of West Ham United scored the one goal for Wales. Tottenham hotspur's Roman Pavlyuchenko and Arsenal's Andrey Arshavin were instrumental in giving Russia a well earned win.

In other World Cup qualifiers around the world, Chelsea's Michael Ballack scored for Germany in their 4-0 win over Azerbaijan, Nenad Milijas of Wolverhampton scored in Serbia's draw against France and Arsenal's Nicklas Bendtner put one in for Denmark in their 1-1 draw against Albania.

All in all, these results show why Premier League players are so hot around the world and it also tells us why English Premier League is considered as the best in the world!