England loses to Chile 2-0

Playing without its captain, England played miserably against Chile and lost the fottball match 2-0 at Wembley last night.

Two goals from Barcelona striker Alexis Sanchez, in 7th and 90th minutes, made it a disappointing night for Roy Hodgson's experimental side.

In fact the match for Chile as  a repeat performance of their 1998 Wembley victory over England. 

Exploring his options after qualifying for next summer's World Cup in Brazil, Hodgson gave England debuts to Southampton pair Adam Lallana and Jay Rodriguez, as well as Celtic goalkeeper Fraser Forster.

Read more about it at: BBC Sport/Football
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Borussia Dortmund- Bayern München: UEFA Champions League FINAL | Watch Live Free Streaming - 25 May 2013

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So here it is - the long awaited UEFA Champion League Final at Wembley.

And what is more interesting and coincidental is that it is going to be a All German Final as both Borussia Dortmund and Bayern München are German teams, contesting the UEFA final for the first time.

Ahead of the Champions League final, Borussia Dortmund manager Jürgen Klopp believes the 'all-German' Champions League final at Wembley will be a "special" occasion.

"If this is my only final and I die in 60 years, it won't have been so bad," said Klopp.

Thomas Müller, the Munich forward, when was asked to assess his team’s deficiencies, said: “I can’t say we have a feeling that we have any weakness. We have played a lot of games without any goals being scored against us.”


Projected lineups (left to right):
Borussia Dortmund (4-3-3): Roman Weidenfeller; Marcel Schmelzer, Mats Hummels, Neven Subotic, Lukasz Piszczek; Sebastian Kehl, Sven Bender, Ilkay Gündogan; Marco Reus, Robert Lewandowski, Jakub Blaszczykowski

Bayern Munich (4-2-3-1): Manuel Neuer; David Alaba, Dante, Jerome Boateng, Philipp Lahm; Javi Martinez, Bastian Schweinsteiger; Franck Ribery, Thomas Müller, Arjen Robben; Mario Mandžukić


It may be added that Wembley has been host to five European Cup finals (1971 - Ajax 2 Panathinaikos 0, 1978 - Liverpool 1  FC Bruges 0, 1992 - Barcelona 1 Sampdoria 0 and 2011 - Barcelona 3 Manchester United 1).

The match is scheduled for Saturday, 25 May at 18:45 GMT at  Wembley.

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London Olympics 1948 Nostalgia

Britain has the honour of the three Olympics, including the present one. The first one was held in 1908 and the second in 1948, the first after WW-II and after an historic event of the end of the British Empire in the Indian subcontinent in 1947 that resulted into creation of present day India and Pakistan.

While the euphoria is hiking as the London Olympic 2012 is now just days away, here is a London Olympics 1948 Nostalgia, which may remind those who were there in 1948 to watch the proceedings of the previous London Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XIV Olympiad. Wembley stadium was the venue for 22 athletics events at the Games.

The Olympic Torch [ Photo: The Guardian ]

A total of 59 nations sent athletes. Fourteen made their first official appearance.  It was the first time that the Philippines, India and Pakistan competed as independent nations at the Olympic Games. Germany and Japan, both under Allied military occupations, were not allowed to send athletes to the games. German forced labour was used for the construction of the facilities [Wikipedia]

King George VI at the opening ceremony of London Olympics 1948

The opening ceremony was held on 29th July, personally by King George V and the clsoing ceremony was held on 14th august.  Atotal of 136 events in 17 major sports field were held during the games.

The News report [Guardian]

One of the many entry tickets of London Olympics 1948 [Photo: Olympic Museum]

March of history ... the Australian contingent at the opening ceremony of the 1948 London Olympics at Wembley Stadium. [ Photo: Fairfax Archives / SMH ] 

Olympic legend: Fanny Blankers-Koen, known as 'the Flying Housewife', crosses the finish line to win the 200 metres at the 1948 London Olympics. She also won gold in the 100 metres, 80 metres hurdles and 4x100 relay [Photo: The Telegraph]

The 1948 London Olympics open at Wembley Stadium. The Games return to the city in one year. Photograph: Action Images [The Guardian]

Marathon men: the runners leave Wembley Stadium at the start of the race — there was no marathon for women

The Duke of Edinburgh congratulates France’s José Beyaert after he won the cycling road race [Photo: Standard ]

First Participation in Olympics: Hockey team of Pakistan that participated in London Olympics 1948 just one year after the partition of British India. The team under A I Shah Dara played semi finals against England and lost 2-0, Pakistan then played Holland and lost to take 4th position. [Photo: Pakistan Chronicle / Friday Times ] It was 12 years later at Rome Olympics, that Pakistan Hockey won its first Gold Medal.

Delfo Cabrera winning the marathon at the 1948 Olympic Games. The photo was on the front page of Clarín, the main Argentine newspaper, on August 14th, 1948 [Photo: Significance Magazine ]

Olden day Twitter: Special Post Boxes around Wembley allowed visitors to Games to send postcards to friends and family to boast of their big day out [Photo: V3] 

To meet the demand for phone lines in 1948, the Post Office set up a a dedicated on-site exchange, called The Corinthian Exchange [Photo: V3]

The royal Mail issued special postage stamps, bearing head of King George VI, on the eve of the London Olympics 1948 as under: 

Stamps photo: Postal Heritage

  

The London Olympics 2012 are held when the British Queen has just celebrated her golden jubilee on the throne of the United Kingdom - her father King George VI opened the 1948 Olympics, before he died in 1952 and his eldest daughter Elizabeth took over.

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Watch Live Online Sheffield United - Huddersfield - Championship Final

While fans crowd Bristol City's Ashton Gate Ground for Women FA CUP final Saturday afternoon, thousands of Yorkshire football fans are heading Wembly for Wembley final football match between Sheffield United - Huddersfield.

Huddersfield Town and Sheffield United are battling for a final place in the Championship alongside already promoted Sheffield Wednesday.

The exhuberance and excitment can be gauged from the fact that 50,000 tickets have already been sold out.

Sheffield United finished third after the regular season while Huddersfield Town stands at fourth place.

Who will win - is a difficult question. But if we look at the records, Saturday's final between the two teams is the 99th competitive meeting over 99 years and Huddersfield lead by 38 wins to 26, with 34 drawn.

The match is scheduled for Saturday, 26 May 2012 at 14:00 GMT

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