Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Newcastle/Gateshead, Nottingham, Plymouth, Sheffield and Sunderland will make up the candidate host cities for Englands 2018 World Cup bid. Do you think the committee have made a good choice of towns and stadia?

Wigan’s chairman Dave Whelan has lashed out at Marlon King, saying that he cannot really see him coming back as a professional footballer after the former Wigan striker was jailed for 18 months for sexual assault and actual bodily harm on a student.

Should Gary Neville earn an England recall? Vote on our poll and have your say on the matter.

Like Halloween, School ‘proms’ complete with limos, McDonalds, Baseball caps and Rap, the idea of stadium naming rights is a mostly unwanted tradition imported from the USA to our shores…

Celtic and Rangers are once again making enquiries into joining the English Premier League or an Atlantic League, but are they really good enough?

We would like your view in our quick poll. Do you believe the rumours that Emile Heskey will return to Liverpool in the next transfer window?

Media group Perform have the rights to stream England’s world-cup qualifier against Ukraine on the internet-only after talks with television companies collapsed. We’d like your opinion do you think the match should have been streamed on terrestrial or satellite television as well?

Although its a long way off and in no way assured, England’s bid for 2018 has got cities across the country excited with the potential of having Togo v Wales (ok maybe not Wales, that would be ridiculous) playing at their shiny new stadium, prompted by the organisers who say they may pick stadia that would not normally be considered.

England have qualified for the knockout stage of the 2010 World Cup, but who will record their official anthem?

Football and alcohol have always been tied into a deep relationship from the oft-forgotten Watney Cup through to todays Carling Cup, big breweries have sponsored teams and competitions for an age.