“Their average age is 26. They’re in the prime of their footballing lives,” Clive Tyldesley, the ITV commentator, said into his microphone as England prepared to kick off against France at Euro 2004.
David Beckham, Paul Scholes, Steven Gerrard, Frank Lampard, John Terry, Ashley Cole, Michael Owen, Sol Campbell… this was England’s golden generation at their peak.
Yet it was the baby-faced assassin among them, or the assassin-faced baby as some liked to call him, who played as though he
A feud between two warring families over the wedding of a young couple exploded into violence which saw a ‘Good Samaritan’ killed when he was hit by a car ‘at 50mph’, it is claimed.
A celebration ceremony for groom Hasan Khan, who is in his early 20s, and his bride, who is 19, was taking place on Wednesday when her furious family, unhappy with the marriage, rushed to College Close in Sheffield to confront his relatives.
Witnesses claim there were
Israel today said it has killed ‘dozens’ of Hamas terrorists during ‘fierce’ fighting ‘deep’ inside Gaza with video showing soldiers scouring the streets for the gunmen amid raging battles.
Israeli troops attacked Hamas positions within the terrorists’ vast tunnel network – a key objective for Israel as it it expands ground operations inside Gaza to wipe out Hamas following its gun rampage three weeks ago that killed over 1,400 people.
In the fifth day of major ground operations inside northern
Tourists have been forced to flee raging wildfires in Portugal, with the flames now heading for the Algarve.
More than 1,000 firefighters are battling a series of blazes in the Iberian nation as it and neighbouring Spain swelter in extreme summer heat.
Temperatures in many areas are rising above 40 degrees Celsius (104 F) – with the mercury tipping 46 degrees on Santarem, 50 miles north of the capital, Lisbon.
Three major fires were raging yesterday on Tuesday, with the
A cargo ship that has been on fire since Tuesday near an island north of the Netherlands was still burning on Friday, the Dutch Coast Guard said, as it emerged that the vessel had been carrying significantly more electric vehicles than initially reported.
The cause of the fire aboard the ship, the Fremantle Highway, remains unclear. The 656-foot vessel was carrying about 3,000 vehicles, and while officials initially reported that it had 25 electric vehicles among them, Edwin Granneman, a
Hundreds of wildfires have burned their way through Southern Europe and North Africa this week, with residents of nearby communities forced to flee the billowing smoke and advancing blazes. Firefighters in at least 10 countries in the region have mobilized firefighting planes and trucks to douse the blazes, which have blackened thousands of acres of land, consumed buildings and killed dozens of people.
With the summer season typically a popular time for tourists, visitors to the region have also been
Manchester United goalkeeper Nathan Bishop has issued a public apology to Paul Mullin. The pair came together in a sickening pre-season collision, with the Wrexham striker given treatment on the pitch and later sent to hospital for checks after suffering a punctured lung.
Bishop and Mullin were both going after the ball when the Wrexham man took a painful blow in his kidney region. Mullin was substituted midway through the first half, walking off under his own steam after receiving
Two pilots aboard a Greek air force water-dropping plane were killed after the plane crashed while diving into a wildfire in southern Greece on Tuesday, according to reports.
Christos Moulas, 34, and Periklis Stefanidis, 27, were sent to douse scrub fires near Platanistos at the southern tip of Evia Island, The Sun reported.
Footage shows a yellow Canadair CL-215 plane swooping low to dump water on smouldering bushes. However, it clips a tree, and a piece of wing is seen
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Ein ehemaliger QB der New York Giants wurde gewarnt, dass er in seinem neuen Job in ein „tobendes Inferno“ eintritt.
Davis Webb tauschte den Versuch, ein Pro-Bowl-Quarterback zu werden, gegen das Coaching ein. Es ist ein mutiger Karrierewechsel, aber Webbs Entscheidung, die New York Giants zu verlassen und Russell Wilsons Positionstrainer bei den Denver Broncos zu werden, könnte laut einer warnenden Geschichte sein Peter King von NBC Sports.
In seiner neuesten Kolumne „Football Morning in America“ warnte King,
