Football free bets used on the last England international didn’t bring much joy for football sports betting fans. Steve McClaren must now be on a short fuse whilst the side await their fate in the qualification for Euro 2008 tournament and the English national team continue to strive for an England manager who can take them forward.

It’s weird in the football world in this country that we can’t seem to make the step up from being a reasonable, competitive side to being a strong and consistent challenger for one of the top world rankings. Something just doesn’t add up when we have some of the best domestic teams in the world competing in some of the best league divisions in the world, then producing some of the best players in the world in certain positions and we can’t gel it all when it comes to international games. Is it our managers? Is it the FA? We have the players but we don’t seem to have anyone who can bring out the best in them – perhaps Jose Mourinho would be the best candidate!

Other games, namely cricket and rugby, are showing progress and development at the highest level but our football side seems to be very static and lacks initiative and direction.

All of us England fans want to see England in the Euro 2008 competition and for us not to be there makes the whole thing hollow as a spectacle for us. That said, I have to emphasised a point that I blogged about last winter on having a domestic coach rather than foreign. Why? Because I don’t believe that and international side with a foreign coach represents a truly national side. If our football team can’t cut it at the moment because we can’t find a coach of the highest ability in England – then so be it! It points to our game not having the right structure to produce coaches of the highest level and that’s where we now have to focus.

It’s a call to arms for the FA to look at this problem. When the English game gets into trouble, we shouldn’t have to scratch around and see who is out of a job around the world to select our new coach, we should be able to look at our national leagues and see which coaches are making the biggest changes, biggest improvements and maybe radical thinking in the domestic game.

So it’s England against South Africa for world cup rugby betting fans. We blogged they could do it and now they are there – in the final – against a formidable opposition. Rugby free bets need to be ready this week for you to get the best betting odds for this titanic match.

After Saturday’s victory against France, England showed how they have improved in every area during this tournament and especially since the 36-0 thrashing at the hands of South Africa in the qualifying stages. This is a very special group fo guys who are able to dissect their game and improve each area in turn. Against the Aussies, we showed that our attacking options were coming together and we can provide a real threat, particularly up front. But, the slight downside to that performance was some of our first up tackling which let the Aussies punish us territorially. On Saturday though, this was the area where we had really lifted our game. Our defensive lines were superb against a fantastic french side and to keep them from crossing our try line was a massive effort that affords the utmost praise.

So with England now seemingly having improved beyond comparison to their previous encounter against the Boks, the final shapes up to be a game that will be up there with the classics. My feeling is that England’s forwards will take it the South Africans and our defence won’t let them through.

South Africa made hard work of a victory against Fiji and the scoreline against Argentina flattered them as the Argies looked nervous and lost their cool to give an uncharacteristic error-strewn performance.

I state for the record that I can see England winning comfortably.

For us english rugby betting fans, it’s all about turn as the odds take a plummet over one weekend. Get your rugby world cup free bets organised as the bookmakers re-evaluate the odds for England the competition. Were you one of those who had the courage to stick with England and achieve 50/1 on them winning the tournament before it started? You won’t get that now, as the difference is incredible at 6/1.

One of the classic matches against the old enemy took place on Saturday as the England pack finally clicked (see our previous blog) and boy oh boy, didn’t they show what they can do. It’s not often that you see the Australian pack bullied out of a game but thanks to the likes of Andrew Sheridan, that’s exactly what happened. The Aussie front row couldn’t cope with the English after the first 20 minutes, when the ref. seemed to get the culprits wrong in the collapsing scrums. When he finally got the idea of who was bringing it down, the Aussies went backwards! We took them on in the loose and despite dogged defence, as you’d expect, we were gaining the hard yards.

In the backs, we showed generally good defence but this first-up tackling needs to be improved. It’s where we let oppositions back into a game when they don’t deserve it. The french, with their extra pace in the back line will exploit this to the full and even take us apart if their forwards get their share of possession.

This next Saturday is going to be another test for the English side but probably more for our backs than forwards this time. Our pack will no doubt gain parity up front and may dominate, but the french can click, as we did last game, and their backs could prove to be a much sterner test for our first up defence.

 Get set for a powder keg of an atmosphere for this one!

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With the array of sports betting options that have recently been in the frame, like the Twenty20 cricket world cup, world cup rugby still going on, the premiership also continues to draw punters in the usual way, it all adds up to a busy period to the beginning of autumn 2007. With this in mind, free bets are at the forefront of most punters minds as they prepare for the next bout of their online betting campaign.

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There’s plenty of sport to be played this autumn and into the winter but before you know it, we’ll be into the winter and it’ll soon be Cheltenham Festival time!

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It’s not really a subject for a sports betting and free bets site but I was heartened last week to listen to Gordon Brown in his speach to his fellow party members saying that he wants at least 5 hours sports per week for children in schools.

 It’s refreshing to hear somebody championing the need for sport in our schools again after moves in the 90′s to sell off school playing fields and then in the new millenium came the reduction in competition in sport. During my own school days I was was always a passionate sportsman and have experienced the highs and lows of playing in team games : football, rugby, cricket as well as the non-team game such as golf, tennis and so on. I therefore firmly believe, as do most of the country’s parents I think, that the profile of sport should increase again to a higher level.

The competitive side of sport is a contentious issue for me because while I have generally been successful in sport, there are some people who have not and have been devastated as youngsters when they have not been able to compete or even take part. But competiton is part of life and the sooner kids start to learn that, the better. It’s how they are taught to accept defeat sometimes in life, and then how they are taught to respond to it that makes them more confident and learn how to cope with it and move on.

I’m hopeful that Gordon Brown will take our sport forward in schools now. I ‘ve been worried about the pattern over the last decade and if we are to remain competitive in the major world sporting events, we need to get back more to where we were.