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Fabio's Formation Dancing Dilemmas...

We know Heskey and Rooney will play up front and we know Rio will be at the centre of defence, but we know precious little else about England's line-up. Fabio has some decisions to make...

Do You Remember The First Time?

On Wednesday England will play Belarus for the very first time, just four days after playing Kazakhstan for the very first time. We look at England's recent record over Europe's 'new' countries...

Fleet Street's Verdict: Give Up On Gerrard & Lampard

The scribes in attendance at Wembley saw enough to declare that Fabio Capello should admit defeat in his apparent wish to pair Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard in midfield..

It's Going To Be A Big Weekend For...

Wayne Rooney has proved to be Fabio Capello's favourite of the formerly untouchable strike pairing, so the pressure will be on to prove himself. This and more in an international edition of our weekend preview...

How Far Have Trapp's Ireland Come?

The Republic have a golden opportunity to monitor the revolution next week when they face Cyprus - the team that more or less forced Steve Staunton out of the door. Paul Little stays realistic...

Rio Ferdinand: A Really Useful Idiot?

With a crime sheet as long as your arm (Ayia Napa, drink driving, missing drugs tests etc), Rio Ferdinand's history would suggest he is something of a spanner. But he's becoming rather useful...

F365's Five Favourite Financial F***-ups

From the brilliant Seth Johnson story ("I can only offer you 30,000 a week") to Winston Bogarde picking up £40,000 a week, via an Icelandic 'Father Christmas', we have the best money tales ever...

The F365 World Cup Qualifiers Preview - Part Two

After the roaring success of Part One, we thought it would be a grand idea to follow it up with Part Two of our World Cup qualifiers preview. Come on in to learn about Groups Six to Nine...

The F365 World Cup Qualifiers Preview - Part One

We know you're all busy people, and don't have time to follow all the qualifiers. Luckily, we're not busy and do have time, so we've put together a handy guide, starting with Groups One to Five...

The Quotes Of The Week

No prizes for guessing who dominates this week's edition...

The Champions League-bound Xi...

With January only three months away, who will be next to take the lucrative bait of a Champions League offer? Can you imagine Owen at Chelsea or Defoe at Arsenal? Simon O'Brien can...

Go Figure

The numbers that mattered over the past week...

Surely Hull Can't Do An Ipswich?

Mind you, when you look at the Ipswich side that won promotion in 2000, you wouldn't think Ipswich could do an Ipswich. But it's getting harder - only one of last five play-off winners have survived...

F365's Most Memorable Press Conferences

Joe Kinnear's bonkers rant was certainly quite entertaining, but he's not the first to give a memorable performance in front of the Fourth Estate. This way for Jose, Fergie, Schteve and Gross...

The Cheeky Punt's Weekend Preview

The advice this week is to put your money on Sol, Tottenham, Bolton and lots of goals for Dimi Berbatov. Well, if you want the big money you have to take some risks...

It's Going To Be A Big Weekend For...

Popular opinion states the Newcastle job a no lose situation for Joe Kinnear. However, it's exactly the opposite - do well and his career is back on track, fail and he'll never work in the game again...

F365's 'the Jury's Still Out' Xi

We're not labelling them flops but there are an awful lot of multi-million pound players currently wandering around looking a bit lost and out of their depth. Most of them are living in north London...

Go Figure

The numbers that mattered over the past week...

The Quotes Of The Week

The best of the verbals over the past seven days...

Ramos Rotations Send Spurs Dizzy...

Eight games, five formations, 22 changes and just two wins - that's the story of Tottenham's season so far. Does Juande Ramos have a clue about his best line-up? Is it a Spanish thing?

Toffee Crumbs Of Comfort For Spurs

We look at the bottom three on October 1 over the previous six seasons and find that all but one of the bottom clubs have gone down. But the exception was Everton, who kept faith with Moyes...

The Cheeky Punt's Weekend Preview

Stoke and that offside decision ruined Degsy's weekend seven days ago. But our man is still backing Robbie Keane to deliver the goods this Saturday in the latest Merseyside derby

Our Five Favourite Mersey Moments...

...of the last 20 years, of course, because we're much too young to remember anything before then. So it's Wayne Clark's winner, Kenny Dalglish's fuming and the comedic antics of Pepe Reina...

It's Going To Be A Big Weekend For...

Things haven't really gone against Roy Keane so far in his time at Sunderland, but with a few rumblings up north, it will be interesting to see how he deals with some criticism and pressure...

Other Teams Have Teenagers Too...

While all the focus might be on Jack Wilshere, Aaron Ramsey, Carlos Vela and Theo Walcott, we were sure that every Premier League club had a teenage hope. And we were (kind of) right...