Women footballers turn down the FA

England’s women footballers have turned down an offer of £18,000 a year from the FA, according to the BBC. 

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BBC- Aaaarrghhh!

I'm not one of those Welsh people who hate England. I can't really. England has given me a home, an education, a load of friends, a job and a wife! I don't have an inclination towards hatred.

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An account of a boring Olympic football match

GABON 0, 0 REPUBLIC OF KOREA, WEMBLEY STADIUM  ( London 2012 Olympics ) ' Korea you R.O.K' and ' Go, go Gabon, where are you from ? ' are two recommended chants for those that are not content to remain neutral '

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Fans won’t find it as easy to follow Rodgers’ urge to forget

For a football tournament played in the good spirit and togetherness of the Olympic games, there was something sinister about the taste left in the mouth following Luis Suarez’ appearance against Team GB on Wednesday night that was played to a soundtrack of boos and barracking. Suarez is a controversial figure with an 18 month spell in the Premier League blighted by an array of incidents, most notably his sanction for a racial offence against Manchester United’s Patrice Evra, but it would take the most unforgiving of moral judgement to argue that Suarez deserves to be subjected to the kind of abuse that trivialises the setting the Uruguayan found himself in.

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Team GB women make case for spotlight

As a sort of footnote to the men’s experiment on the Olympic stage during the 2012 games, the female equivalent have had to settle for the typical marginalisation it usually faces when competing for headlines in the default-male orientated sport of football. Hope Powell’s squad qualified at the top of group E having conceded 0 goals and winning all three matches to set up a quarter-final date with Canada.

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Pearce finds perfect answer with excelling experience

Team GB’s unique odyssey into the football competition of the home 2012 Olympic Games rolls into Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium on Wednesday as Stuart Pearce’s men need just a point from an appointment with Uruguay to progress into the quarter-finals. It is fitting for Team GB that the group decider should come in the country that has hailed the two catalysts for the side’s promising position in these games, the aging excellence of Craig Bellamy and Ryan Giggs.

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Great Britain Gold Rush: Reasons we can bag ourselves a medal

As the historic team GB prepares for its first Olympics since 1960 there is reason to stem the tide of pessimism that has epidemically replaced optimism across Great Britain.

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Becksgate

It emerged today that David Beckham won’t be representing Great Britain at the Olympic Games this summer.

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