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L’ Inghilterra ha superato il Messico ( 3-1 ) in una delle due amichevoli previste prima dell’ inizio della Coppa del Mondo. La squadra di Capello è scesa in campo in formazione parzialmente sperimentale davanti ad uno stadio di “Wembley” che presentava un fantastico colpo d’occhio. La prossima gara di preparazione a Sud Africa 2010 opporrà ai “bianchi” il Giappone. La fiducia nel gruppo è alta e dopo le dichiarazioni di Owen anche Rio Ferdinand ritiene che la squadra abbia buone possibilità di conseguire il successo finale. Sul fronte tifosi la polizia lancia l’allarme non solo per il possibile comportamento dei 35/40mila supporters ( foto ) che si recheranno in Sud Africa ma anche per quanto concerne eventuali problemi in patria, con particolare riferimento alle adiacenze dei pubs che trasmetteranno le partite.

 

Glen Johnson scored a sublime solo goal to help England to victory over Mexico in their World Cup warm-up at Wembley.

Fellow defender Ledley King gave Fabio Capello’s men the lead when he headed in Peter Crouch’s nod-back.Crouch bundled in the second after making a nuisance of himself on the line before Guillermo Franco tapped in for Mexico just before the break.Johnson scored England’s third when he skipped past several challenges before curling in a superb 20-yard shot.

( BBC Sport )

 

Rio Ferdinand says he is mentally and physically ready to captain England at the World Cup after enduring an injury-hit season with Manchester United.

The 31-year-old centre-back made only 21 club appearances in a season disrupted by back injury.However, he said: “All being well I’ll be in tip-top condition come the first game. I’m training hard and have three weeks to get into the World Cup groove.”How can I not be refreshed? I’m used to playing 40, 50 games a season.”Fitness permitting, Ferdinand will lead England against the United States in Rustenburg on 12 June as he begins his fourth World Cup campaign.Speaking before England’s final World Cup warm-up match on home soil, against Mexico at Wembley on Monday, he said: “I have not played anywhere near that amount this year, so I will be going out to the tournament in good condition.”I am definitely buzzing. I spoke to my missus this morning and my little boys demanded to have England flags on the car and stuff like that. We can’t wait to get into fever pitch.”Ferdinand was an unused squad member 12 years ago in France when England were knocked out in the second round on penalties by Argentina.

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He did however feature in the following two tournaments in 2002 and 2006 where England suffered quarter-finals losses to Brazil and Portugal.And he will use the disappointment of those exits to guide his side in South Africa, while looking to build on the confidence brought by a qualifying campaign where the only dropped points came with a 1-0 defeat against Ukraine after qualification had already been assured.”There is a confidence,” continued Ferdinand. “But maybe we have been a bit naive in the past and got ourselves caught up in all the emotion that surrounds our country going to a massive tournament.”People say we are going to win it. But we have respect for the other nations as well.”Being captain is a fantastic honour and a responsibility that I warm to. But it is not something that is going to change me. I will conduct myself in exactly the same way.”Even before I was made captain, the younger players knew I was an easy-going guy who they can approach which, in a way, is more important than being captain.”When you have been to tournaments, you are more capable of being the kind of person that a younger player might need to speak to.”

( BBC Football )

 

International, Wembley: England v Mexico
Date: Monday, 24 May Kick-off: 2000 BST
Coverage: Live commentary 1930 BST on BBC Radio 5 live and BBC Sport website; live text commentary on BBC Sport website and mobiles; also live on ITV 1

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England manager Fabio Capello will field an unfamiliar side for his side’s final World Cup warm-up match on home soil against Mexico on Monday.

Portsmouth’s David James and Chelsea quartet Ashley Cole, Frank Lampard, Joe Cole and John Terry, who all played in last week’s FA Cup final, miss out.”I will experiment against Mexico,” confirmed Capello.The Italian said he may use Wayne Rooney as a lone striker and is also pondering a switch to a 3-5-2 system.”We have never played it, but it is possible it will be good,” he said.”It will depend on which game, which moment, which score – it will depend on a lot of different things.”One of those factors is certain to be the fitness of Manchester City midfielder Gareth Barry who picked up an ankle injury in his side’s penultimate game of the season against Tottenham on 5 May.The 29-year-old, who has proved to be a favourite of Capello’s as a holding midfielder, was initially ruled out for four weeks with England’s first match against the United States on 12 June coming soon after his expected recovery.Capello confirmed that Barry’s progress will be checked again on Monday.

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Barry’s absence against Mexico will rob England of one regular member of their starting line-up, and the side is likely to feature other relatively unfamiliar faces following Capello’s decision to omit all five players who featured in the FA Cup final.

“The Chelsea players and David James will not play,” said Capello.”I needed them to train to check their physical situation.”The quintet, who were given three days off after the Wembley showpiece, which Chelsea won 1-0, only joined England’s altitude training camp in Austria on Wednesday.Capello has already confirmed that Manchester City keeper Joe Hart, who has impressed during a season-long loan at Birmingham, will win his second England cap, most likely as a second-half substitute for West Ham’s Robert Green.Five other substitutes are allowed during the game and Capello is expected to test the fitness of centre-backs Rio Ferdinand and Ledley King, while winger Adam Johnson and defender Michael Dawson could make their England debuts.Rooney, who has recovered from a groin injury, looks set to be used as a lone striker against a Mexico side who are also fine-tuning for the World Cup.”It is important to see how some of these perform on the pitch,” said Capello.”Rooney always wants to play.

WORLD CUP COUNTDOWN 24 May: England v Mexico at Wembley 30 May: Japan v England at UPC-Arena, Graz, Austria 1 June: Deadline to name 23-man squad 2 June: Squad travel to World Cup base in Phokeng

“If I tell him no he says ‘I want to play, I want to train, why do you substitute me?, I want to score’.”It is good because he is positive to be around and he is an example to the other players.”Capello said he has all but decided which 23 players he will take to the World Cup, although he is still concerned about players picking up injuries in the final two warm-up games.”In my mind I know more I less the names of the players who will be with me,” he said.”But we have to wait because I do not know which players will be injured.”

England also have a friendly against Japan on 30 May in Graz, before he selects his final squad by 1 June.The squad will then fly back to England before heading out to South Africa on 2 June.One factor that is not concerning Capello is the much-criticised Wembley surface on which Monday’s match will be played.Chelsea captain John Terry claimed the pitch “ruined” the FA Cup final against Portsmouth on 15 May, but Capello felt it was a huge improvement compared to the surface for the tournament’s semi-finals.”The pitch for the FA Cup final was not perfect but I was happy because the players didn’t slip,” he said.”The most important thing is that the players don’t slip like they did in the Tottenham-Portsmouth FA Cup semi-final. That was terrible.”

( BBC Football )

 

 

World Cup hooliganism greater threat in Britain than South Africa: Police chief

The threat of violence from football hooligans during this summer’s World Cup will be far more in Britain than in South Africa, police chiefs fear.The officer in charge of policing England’s World Cup travelling fans, Andy Holt, said there were concerns that violence will flare amongst drunken fans watching televised games in pubs and clubs in England.“If we have a hot June and England progress to the later stages, then pubs start running alcohol promotions and we have the potential for trouble from drunken fans,” The Telegraph quoted Holt, as saying.Holt, who will be travelling to South Africa with a team of 12 British officers to support the local policing of the competition, further warned that hooligans will face a “robust” South African police force armed with guns, plastic bullets and water cannons.He said he has been explaining the culture of English football fans to his South African counterparts.“Initially they had an image of England fans on the rampage, but we have explained that they shouldn’t see the traditional singing and chanting as a precursor to violence,” he added.

(ANI)

 

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May 24, 2010 by The Hovian

 

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Dopo il grande successo di “Lads 2009”

Anteprima Un noto leader di una Firm, richiesto di commentare i consueti incidenti procurati all’estero dai Lads, dichiarò alla stampa “Margaret Thatcher ci deve condannare pubblicamente ma dentro di sè sarà sicuramente orgogliosa del lavoro fatto dai ragazzi”.. Questo libro si propone come un viaggio attraverso quarant’anni di trasferte oltre Manica dei Casuals britannici al seguito delle selezioni nazionali e delle squadre di club. La narrazione delle principali trasferte può facilmente diventare il paradigma per descrivere centinaia di giornate nelle quali le firms hanno esportato all’estero il loro bagaglio di fedeltà, nazionalismo, alcoolismo e, spesso, anche violenza. Il volume si propone come naturale seguito di “Lads 2009”, dello stesso autore, che illustra la scena attuale dei mobs britannici tra le mura domestiche. Sangue, birra e Red Hand gli ingredienti ricorrenti di un cocktail spesso esplosivo

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Tre narratori anòmici, un’unica entità multiforme che si cela dietro uno pseudonimo palesemente preso a prestito dall’immaginario più “dandy” e teppisticamente elitarista della galassia del tifo estremista internazionale. Tre ultras italiani, navigati e carichi di disillusioni, ma altrettanto consapevoli di un compito autoconferitosi di voler essere testimoni, umili e parziali, di un’epoca al crepuscolo e di un movimento anche contro-culturale, antisitemico e sociale oltre che un mix di misticismo sportivo e/o di prassi di violenza semi-delinquenziale. Un “touch and go” all’interno del calcio britannico minoritario, quello più povero e meno ingioiellato della vecchia imperturbabile Scozia. Terra in cui le anomalie e le forti contraddizioni, oltre che le ataviche rivalità del mondo britannico, si esternano ciclicizzandosi in migliaia di rivoli settari. La terra dove il modello repressivo albionico ha attecchito forse con minor clamore e sponsorizzazione mediatica, rispetto a quello “cockney” e “scouse”, per rimanere in due città simbolo della violenza “hooligana” ma che ha trasferito sulle “terraces” le tensioni che ne attanagliano il tessuto sociale, politico e religioso.Le voci si sovrapporranno nella narrazione fluida di questo diario di viaggio. Così come allo stadio i cori che cercano di reiterarsi all’infinito vengono sostituiti a seguire da un altro nuovo o contrario, o addirittura sopraffatti da quelli degli avversari, che istigati, ci sommergono di fischi ed insulti fino a coprirci per poi azzittirsi di nuovo. Nessuno potrà dire chi narra e chi ascolta, un’anarchia narrativa simile all’anarchia dei nostri pensieri, e beninteso, non ascrivibile ad un referente ideologico, bensì ad una conseguenza strutturale, morfologica, necessaria: quella dell’istinto libero che cerca la voce per darsi un racconto e quindi un’esistente nel mondo che ci circonda. Parliamo tutti con un’unica voce, per riconoscere le nostre individualità all’interno del gruppo: proprio come facevamo in curva, coi nostri fratelli.Il resto l’ha fatto la nostra cosiddetta follia, quella che noi chiamiamo la nostra gioia

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