England vs. Sweden today: Steven Gerrard set to get 100th Cap today in Stockholm with 3 rookies starting for Three Lions as England meets Sweden tonight in Friends Arena's inaugural international match in Solna -home of next July's Final of UEFA's Women's Euro 2013

England FA YouTube Channel video: Twelve  years after playing in his first match as a member of the English National Team, Liverpool midfielder Steven Gerrard reflects on tonight's international friendly at Sweden in what will be his 100th match as part of the Three Lions and the first international match to be played at Sweden's new home for the Men and Womens National Team. Uploaded November 14, 2012. http://youtu.be/ZxXp58DlS2s

With temps in the 40's Farenheit, the stadium roof will be closed -match will be aired on TV4 in Sweden.
More match info at: http://svenskfotboll.se/ and http://friendsarena.se/Evenemang/Invigningsmatch-Sverige-England/

I found out last week that the annual national telecast of the St. Lucia concert will be there on December 15th. Sweet! 

http://www.tv4play.se/program/sporten?video_id=2240039&utm_medium=sharing&utm_source=permalink&utm_campaign=tv4play.se&starttime=22
TV4Sport senaste sportnyheterna: Allbäck inför Sverige England: "Ska bli häftigt"
 Allbäck: England-Sweden will be awesome. 


SvenskFotboll YouTube Channel video: Nya Nationalarenan - Friends Arena - från första spadtag till färdig arena New National Arena - Friends Arena - from the groundbreaking ceremony to the final arena. Uploaded November 14, 2012.
http://youtu.be/C1DKagq8X60



SvenskFotboll YouTube Channel video: Marcus Allbäck reveals the starting line-up for  Sweden in their match tonight against England. Uloaded November 14, 2012. http://youtu.be/zJoPjWwjbpA




 SvenskFotboll YouTube Channel video: SvFF:s första presskonferens på Friends Arena 7/11 2012 - svenskfotboll http://youtu.be/bHE48I1hUHU


http://www.england.vitalfootball.co.uk/article.asp?a=299824

http://svenskfotboll.se/arkiv/landslag/2012/11/truppen-mot-england/

http://www.youtube.com/user/england/

http://www.youtube.com/user/svenskfotboll/


http://www.uefa.com/womenseuro/index.html

http://www.uefa.com/womenseuro/news/newsid=1887601.html

Oranjekoorts (Orange fever) at home, but in Poland, Dutch National Team is target of racial abuse in Krakow during team training session for Euro 2012. Info on incident, rumors of cause, and what UEFA is doing as tourney opens Friday; UEFA to players: Just DON'T step off the field!; #Euro2012

CNN video: Dutch National Team is target of racial abuse in Krakow, Poland during team practice for Euro 2012. Pedro Pinto reports from Warsaw on incident, rumors of cause and what UEFA is doing. Tourney starts today as Poland hosts Greece in Warsaw. June 7, 2012.

http://cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/world/2012/06/08/pinto-football-racism-reported.cnn.html

SNTV video: Refs can 'stop games over racism', says UEFA President Platini

http://youtu.be/K7dzeia7ix0

Today's games on ESPN:  

11:30 a.m. Eastern - Greece vs. Poland 

2 p.m. Eastern - Russia vs. Czech Republic

The Netherlands plays Denmark on Saturday, an ESPN match airing at 11:45 a.m. and then plays Germany on Wednesday.

Some of you more regular readers of the blog might recall that my pre-2010 World Cup prediction was that the Orange would win in South Africa, but instead, they lost in a very ugly and depressing way in the title match to Spain, a style that really upset a lot of Dutch football fans at home and around the world.

TRAINING DUTCH TEAM ORANJE FOR EURO 2012 !! NEDERLAND HD

http://youtu.be/6TmXRyThcQw

DUTCH TEAM ORANJE GETTING READY FOR EURO 2012 !!!!

http://youtu.be/zu7wE9GVPL0

One Nation Thinking Only of Orange! (LOL!)

Oranje vlaggetjes zijn levensgevaarlijk voor verkeer

http://www.ad.nl/ad/nl/1012/Nederland/article/detail/3267314/2012/06/07/Oranje-vlaggetjes-zijn-levensgevaarlijk-voor-verkeer.dhtml

and 

http://www.ad.nl/ad/nl/5624/sportwereld/photoalbum/detail/3261250/352272/0/Oranjekoorts-stijgt-in-Goirle.dhtml total of 8 photos

Algemeen Dagblad's Euro 2012 homepage: 

http://www.ad.nl/ad/nl/2942/EK-voetbal/index.dhtml

England's first match under new manager Roy Hodgson is against France on Monday; more on that match over the weekend.

All hail 'Roy the Redeemer'!

http://youtu.be/-ovbGWkRY_A 

Jubilant! Liam Gallagher's best day of the year! Watches his Man. City beat Man. United, take over top of Premier League in global telecast seen by 650 million, tweets about meeting Maradona, and then crashes press conference

Manchester City FC video: TUNNEL CAM: Man City 1-0 Man United Behind the scenes at the Etihad Stadium. April 30, 2012. http://youtu.be/90xoWo5Eah8
At 17:06, Diego Maradona and his daughter and grand-son arrive to see son-in-law Sergio Agüero...



City1 Utd 0 Liam Gallagher, Hey Jude. April 30, 2012.
http://youtu.be/mm8gLIS4ygA


My biggest fear when I woke up Monday morning was that the scheduled torrential downpours in South Florida would come during the broadcast of the Manchester Derby on ESPN at 3 p.m., and absolutely ruin things, since I have DirecTV and I lose reception during those sort of heavy end-of-the-world thunderstorms we get down here.
Or that Manchester would have similar weather during the match in this, the wettest April in recorded history.





Fortunately for me, everything happened before and after in my corner of South Florida and City won a fabulous game.
Well, at least one team I root for actually wins!



Liam Gallagher crashes the post-match press conference at Manchester City. 
"The league top, how about that?" April 30, 2012.
http://youtu.be/dGBbbwRpNzc


"Maradona shakes the hand of God!" 
Photo at: http://twitter.com/#!/liamgallagher/status/197082620566319104/photo/1
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Oasis - Wonderwall (Live at Jools Holland 2000)
http://youtu.be/vmybmVNjfbI


I'd have posted all this all sooner, as well as posts about the FA's Roy Hodgson vs. "people's choice" Harry Redknapp public debate over the manager of the English National Team, but the perpetual downpours we've had down here of late have played havoc with my access to the AT&T server, rendering me frustrated.
More on this very soon, though, as it's the burr under everyone's saddle there.


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