England lacking talent, say Premier chairmen
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The English game is being hurt by a lack of over-priced talent and a flood of cheaper foreigners, according to Blackburn chairman John Williams.
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Nigel Pearson is the unlikely choice to be the first man to lead out an England team at the rebuilt Wembley stadium.
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Sport: Michael Owen and David Beckham show England what they have been missing.
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Tommy Burns&#39; reign as Scotland manager seems destined to be a short one as his young and inexperienced side were outclassed by Sweden.
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England's qualifications watchdog says "a myriad of issues and errors" plagued  this year's English tests.
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Sport: England captain criticised for his assertion that Flintoff's pedalo incident wrecked team morale.
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Australia have won three World Cups but have come up short in the Champions Trophy, a failure that skipper Ricky Ponting wants his team to redress in this month's fifth edition in India.
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Austria is not the start England needed. Sven-Goran Eriksson&#39;s men needed to hit the ground running and they didn&#39;t. Well, they almost did and as they say, almost doesn&#39;t count.
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David Beckham looks a good bet to win the 100th cap he craves but Fabio Capello's appointment as England manager may not be good news for some of the other big names in the national squad.
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Steve McClaren suffered his first setback as England coach as his under-performing team were held to a 0-0 draw by Macedonia in Manchester.
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There are two ways to go as an acting England head coach: either you sit back and let your track record do the talking or you grasp the bull by the horns and shout your ambitions to the skies.
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Thierry Henry is the darling of English soccer and one of the most prolific scorers to grace the Premier League. For France, he is out of form, lacking in confidence and drastically short of goals.
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CRICKET officials are under pressure to overhaul the game&#39;s showpiece tournaments after embarrassing mismatches and England&#39;s bleak weather threatened to turn the Champions Trophy into a farce.
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England head coach Brian Ashton has called on his players to use their underdog status as motivation to go out and become the first team to defend the World Cup title.
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England&#39;s opening World Cup draw with Austria has posed a whole host of questions about coach Sven-Goran Eriksson and captain David Beckham - and they had better find some fast answers in Katowice on Wednesday.
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DURBAN (South Africa): England coach Duncan Fletcher said some of his batsmen fell to soft dismissals after his team were bundled out for their lowest total of a triumphant year by a revitalised South Africa on the first day of the second Test at
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Kevin Pietersen is "not ready" to be England's one-day captain, so Paul Collingwood is favourite for the role.