Weekend Review 26/27 March

Saturday 26th March

Oxford won the boat race

England got knocked out of cricket world cup thanks to Sri Lanka 10 wicket victory.

England won Wales 2-0 in a euro qualifier

Sunday 27th March

Vettel won the first F1 grand prix of year, Hamilton second, Petrov 3^rd (first ever podium finish)
Brazil beat Scotland 2-0

Wales 0-2 England

Fabio Capello's change of formation and system paid off for England yesterday as they came out 2-0 winners at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium. 

England started with a 4-3-3 formation with Rooney playing wide left and Aston Villa winger Ashley Young playing wide right. Capello described the system as when England have to defend Rooney and Young stayed wide but when they were on the attack the two wingers could play more central and cut inside. 

The change of formation was what England could have done with during last summers world cup when England looked outplayed by better teams midfield.

England opened the scoring early in the first half with Frank Lampard converting from the spot after Darren Bent won England a penalty. Bent made it 2-0 shortly after when man of the match winger Ashley Young put a low cross in for Bent to hit high into the roof of the net.

Rooney worked well throughout the first half linking up with Jack Wilshere as England not only looked capable of scoring from the wide areas but also centrally.

The second half saw Wales come back into the game more but not really pose much of a threat. New captain Aaron Ramsey didn't have the best of games whilst Craig Bellamy had the best chance when shooting from outside the area late on.

The win leaves England joint top of group G on 10 points. Wales are bottom on 0.

England - Wales, My line up.

EURO 2012 GROUP G QUALIFIER: WALES v ENGLAND
Venue: Millennium Stadium Date: Saturday 26 March Kick-off: 1500 GMTCoverage: Live commentary on BBC Radio 5 live and BBC Radio Wales Sport; full text coverage and reports on BBC Sport website; also live on Sky Sports

This is how I'd like to see Capello choose team today to face Wales. Using the same 4231 system that Capello loves, I chose James Milner to help Gareth Barry out in the central of midfield. Which I believe would hope to give us a bit more bite when off the ball instead of a more attack minded Wilshere there, Lampard or Gerrard when fit.

In the last England game we saw Wilshere link up really well with Rooney however Rooney does have a tendency to drop off a bit so could end up us playing a Wenger style no striker.

Cannot wait for the game today, Wales are missing Bale and have said Ramsey will be captain. Some pundits have said that Ramsey has a point to prove to fellow Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere. Wilshere has replaced Ramsey in the center of Arsenals midfield and has in turn cemented his place there well enough to be tipped to start today for England.

Gareth Bale to miss England Match

Its been announced today Tottenham Hotspur winger Gareth Bale will miss the Euro2012 qualifier against England with a hamstring injury.
The lay off comes as a major blow for Wales manager Gary Speed just days before he has to prepare his squad to face England and was hoping to select Bale has he had been in excellent form all season.

"Due to a hamstring problem, Gareth Bale has had to withdraw from the Wales squad to face England," a Football Association of Wales statement said.

"He felt tight last week during training with his club.

"After playing 90 minutes on Saturday he felt some muscle tightness. Initially, this was expected to be muscle soreness after playing his first game.

"On joining up with the Welsh squad he was kept off his feet in training for two days to recover.

"As he still felt tight in the warm-up on Tuesday, Gareth was pulled out of the session.

"He did not train at all on Wednesday and was sent for a scan.

"The scan revealed that Gareth Bale picked up his injury last week."

Sports stars on Twitter!

If you didn't know, Twitter is a social network set up based a bit like updating your status on Facebook. You have 140 characters to write down a status(tweet). Your 'Tweet' can be an update on what your doing, a thought, an oponion or just something random!

Now twitter has got so large it is used by a a various amount of celebs in the wide world. Some just use it to self promote whilst others use it go get their opinion out there quickly. A lot just use it to let you get an insight into their world that you wouldn't normally get. Also you get the chance to communicate with them since every tweet where you mention their name in, reaches them.

Some sports stars are now banned from twitter for comments they have put on twitter and a lot of what they tweet is now carefully thought about beforehand.

These are only a taster, there are loads more out there!!

Sports stars who have twitter are:
themichaelowen michael owen
JohnMcGinlay10 John McGinlay
Persie_Official Robin van Persie
Nanas08 Samir Nasri
OfficialMR2 Micah Richards
VladiW7 Vladimir Weiss
kevinpp24 Kevin Pietersen
jack_wilshere Jack Wilshere
kevindaviesbwfc Kevin Davies
chris_kammy Chris Kamara
stuholden Stuart Holden
rioferdy5 Rio Ferdinand
GregRusedski1 Greg Rusedski
JimmyAnderson9 James Anderson           
Swannyg66 Graeme Swann 
andy_murray Andy Murray

England take on Wales

This weekend see's the return of the Euro 2012 qualification campaign. England's next match on the route to the Euro's is at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium, home of the Welsh National Team.
If ya could get local derbies on a national scale, this would defiantly be one of those.

Newly appointed Welsh manager Gary Speed is the man in charge of taking Wales through a slight transition period with a few new stars on the horizon. Tottenham midfielder Gareth Bale burst on to the scene this year when Harry Redknapp played the once full back in a more forward position. The new left winger role has seen Spurs look deadly on the counter and has put them in the latter stages of the Champions League. Speed also has Arsenal youngster Aaron Ramsey back in contention after a long injury. Ramsey has featured in Arsenals last few games in the premier league and hopes to be available to start against England.

Fabio Capello has announced this week that John Terry will be reinstated as long term England captain. This was after Terry had been stripped of the England Captaincy after allegations of cheating with a partner of a fellow England team mate. Rio Ferdinand had been named captain after the incident however a year on Capello sees fit to give the armband back to JT. Jack Wilshere has also been called up for his first cap in a qualification match.

Wives/Girlfriends take note! Your only allowed to be mad for a year!

http://www.thefa.com/video/England/Mens-Seniors/2011/Wales/Wales-Predictions

Former England stars such as Gary Lineker, Alan Shearer, Chris Waddle, Matt Le Tissier and Gareth Southgate offer their thoughts on Saturday's clash in Cardiff.

Justin Bieber supports Manchester United?

I'm not sure what determines a 'celebrity' nowadays. Whether or not they have done something great with their lives and are now known because of this on a wide scale. Whether they have been on a reality tv show and got instantly likes by the odd million only to dissapear from our lives completely within a month of the reality tv show comes to an end. Or maybe they've just stared in a program you like, or made some music you like.


Whatever a celebrity is, one thing is for sure, when you find out they support the same team as you... It always makes you like them that little bit more. So today i'm gonna look at some celebrity fans and see who they support! 
Lets hope Bieber supports Manchester United cause hes gonna need all the extra loving he can get since his hair cut!

Arsenal Fans

Clive Anderson - TV presenter - Who's Line is it Anyway?

Heston Blumenthal - chef-proprietor of The Fat Duck (voted best restaurant in the world) and TV presenter

Jenson Button - F1 driver

Matt Lucas - comedian - Shooting Stars (George Dawes), Reeves & Mortimer, Little Britain

Aston Villa 

Ian Bell - England Cricketer

Ozzy Osbourne - musician, TV star

Bolton Wanderers

Vernon Kay - TV/Radio presenter

Amir Khan - Olympic boxing silver medalist

Patrick McGuinness - comedian

Chelsea

Sir Richard Attenborough - actor (The Great Escape, Jurassic Park), director

David Baddiel - comedian, author

Ian Bolton - Sky Sports presenter

Michael Caine - actor (Zulu, Escape to Victory, Get Carter, etc.)

Seb Coe - former athlete and politician

Manchester United

Richard Ashcroft - Verve frontman, now solo artist

Ian Brown - ex-Stone Roses frontman, singer

Tim Burgess - Charlatans frontman

Darren Campbell - athlete, has played in Sky One's The Match

Mark Chapman - Radio 1 sports reporter

Liverpool

Craig Charles - comedian, Red Dwarf

Elvis Costello - singer, musician

Daniel Craig - actor (Layer Cake, James Bond)

Mark Owen - singer (Take That) 

Mike Myers - comedian, actor- Waynes World, Austin Powers...

Manchester City

Alan Carr - comedian

Doves - group

Liam Gallagher - Oasis singer

Noel Gallagher - Oasis guitarist, singer, songwriter

Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff - England cricketer

Tottenham Hotspur

Emma Bunton - singer, Spice Girl

Phil Collins - musician, actor (Buster)

Bruce Forsyth - TV presenter

Jude Law - actor (The Talented Mr Ripley, AI)

Barry McGuigan - former boxer, now pundit

Status Quo - group

Shania Twain - country music singer