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Hi
The SuperEngland site proper gets under way tonight - you can accees it via SuperEngland Sport

BBC SPORT | Fun and Games | God Bless Ye Merry Gentlemen

The BBC has a revised version of God Bless Ye Merry Gentlemen and you can play the music to it as you read.

Sporting Life

Brazilian legend Pele believes that England and Italy are Brazil’s main dangers in the World Cup 2006.

BBC SPORT | Sports Personality | Past Winners

Let’s hope Freddie Flintoff - the latest winner - does better than some of the previous winners of the Sports Personality of the Year.

A brief glance at the list shows that since 1990 the winners have often retired soon after and those that haven’t often struggled instead.

BBC leads the way

Have just posted to our forum about the Fink Tank making France favourites and England 11th

Telegraph | Sport | England on collision course with Brazil

Not a bad World Cup draw for England - details below:

Group B
B1: England
B2: Paraguay
B3: Trinidad & Tobago
B4: Sweden

Date Venue Teams
Jun 10 Frankfurt England:Paraguay
Jun 10 Dortmund Trinidad & Tobago:Sweden
Jun 15 Nuremberg England:Trinidad & Tobago
Jun 15 Berlin Sweden:Paraguay
Jun 20 Cologne Sweden:England
Jun 20 Kaiserslautern Paraguay:Trinidad & Tobago

BBC SPORT | Cricket | England | Flintoff to stay up for BBC award

The BBC Sports Personality of the Year look a shoe-in for Freddie - but let’s not forget the great spirit of Ellen MacArthur.

Just noticed that Nationwide - the England football team sponsors - have a cool free England poster you can download from their sponsorship page

Brief facts with 183 days 15 hours and 0 minutes to go until the World Cup finals:
1.England have been seeded for the World Cup.
2. The draw is on Friday.
3. The BBC have produced a useful guide on how to get tickets

It hasn’t escaped me that I’ve set up this site at the exact same time that England crumbled in the cricket to Pakistan - thereby losing the series by 2-0.

In fact, it has provoked me to think hard about what this site is and whilst it will be a supportive force behind England and in unembarrased fashion it will celebrate English victories - on the other hand we won’t shy away from objective criticism when it’s called for.

Anyway, we’re a long way from launching the site - but I thought it worth recording the evelution of the process behind superengland.com