Football Stories...
Below are our articles on the subject of Football Stories. If you can't see what you are looking for our other categories are displayed on the left under 'Our Quick Links'...
England Football Team Quiz
A couple of quizzes for England fans, one modern and easier, one historical and a little more obscure, to test your wits with friends and family...
England Friendly Matches
As friendlies descend into a mass of meaningless multiple substitutions and players withdrawn with ‘injuries’ the history of the friendly is examined...
England's Dream Team
EnglandCaps sticks its neck on the line and chooses the eleven best players to have been capped since internationals restarted after the Second World War....
England's World Cup 2010 Qualifying
England's bulldozing qualification campaign for football's 2010 World Cup in South Africa saw them score the most goals and more points than anyone other than Spain,…...
Footie Facts
Collection of fun and informative facts about English international football...
Forgotten Heroes
A look at the 1966 World Cup team and celebrate the players who didn’t stay in the glare of fame’s spotlight....
Greatest England Songs
A run down of the songs employed, officially and unofficially, on the terraces and in the charts, in the pursuit of England’s international football glory...
Penalties!!
An anguish-ridden review of England’s record in penalty shootouts...
So Close To Victory at Italia 90
Gascoigne’s tears, Lineker’s wonder goal, Pearce misses and Waddle clears the stadium, the semi-final against Germany in 1990 had it all as England went to their best…...
The Beginning of The World Cup
The beginning of the World Cup, from the start of the nineteenth century to England’s participation in the 1950 World Cup....
The England Team Strip
The history of England strips from the first international in 1872 to the annual changes we live with today...
The European Championship
The story behind the European Championships, and England’s involvement in them, from a small start in 1960 to the major tournament we know today....
The Munich Air Disaster
The one minute silence at the Manchester derby in February 2008 was a fitting way to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the crash at Munich that had ripped the heart out…...
Why are they Called Caps?
Story of the development of ‘caps’ as a mark of an international appearance, particularly for England football team....