Home Championships set to return

[Simmo86]

Would be fantastic if it returned. Talk of it now only being a one-off in 2013 though.

Much prefer this to pointless friendlies!

And it means we (as in the English) would have a good chance of winning something!

[Ashley]

How do you become one of those?

Go on the FA website mate, I think you can join the standard England fans all year round and it last for about two years. England fans Gold or Plus has a limited amount of members this also entitles you to get tickets for away games and start increasing your number of caps. At the end of each two year cycle you can only carry so many caps over to the next year

[purpleronnie]

Would love these to return, can imagine Wembley being great if England were playing Scotland there.

It would be like the england v germany game, but with the english fans being outsung even more.

I would guess.

[Guest BlueBrett]

It's about bloody time really. It's always pissed me off that we hardly ever get to play our neighbours. Could be just the shot in the arm that Scotland, Wales et al need to raise their game too. Bit of added motivation since they'll never actually qualify for the Euro or World Cup.

[davieG]

Too good to be true

BBC Latest

The English Football Association said it is in talks with other home nations to play a one-off tournament in 2013.

But it does not want to revive the home international tournament, which involved England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, on a regular basis.

The FA is investigating the proposal as part of its 150th anniversary.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/9357918.stm

[Alexikokopops]

What's that, England fail to get the World Cup so all of a sudden want something special. So now they DO want to join? Oh okay then. Hurray, now it's news!

Great.

Or it's actually because 2013 is the FA's 150th anniversary and this is part of the planned celebrations for it.

[Stevosevic]

Cool, why not.

[Edmund]

People were calling into talksport saying that we should use this tournament to give our u21's tournament practice

The fans need to take their heads out of their arses and realise that our first team can't even beat so called lesser nations like The States and Algeria.

[Finnegan]

Mhm. Not for one moment suggesting we aren't a side England should be beating comfortably but our U21s matched yours over two games and almost beat them, you'd get murdered if you went in to it with that much arrogance.

I have to be honest though, as a supporter of one of the celtic nations I honestly don't give a shit if you join or not, the arrogance and the complacency about it pisses me off. And the sad thing is that it's not really the supporters, I'd say a majority of you are really enthusiastic.

But the FA are painfully out of touch. "People might get bored playing the same teams every year." - hello? Like their domestic leagues? Or the ever popular Six Nations? Jesus.

And as I said earlier, there's barely any recognition for the fact that we've already brought the Home Nations back. If anything it should be the FA approaching it's fellow governing bodies asking to join, not giving it the big ones. All of these articles have, at best, a sentence somewhere near the bottom pointing out "oh by the way, this already exists and is starting in a month or so."

[Alexikokopops]

Mhm. Not for one moment suggesting we aren't a side England should be beating comfortably but our U21s matched yours over two games and almost beat them, you'd get murdered if you went in to it with that much arrogance.

I have to be honest though, as a supporter of one of the celtic nations I honestly don't give a shit if you join or not, the arrogance and the complacency about it pisses me off. And the sad thing is that it's not really the supporters, I'd say a majority of you are really enthusiastic.

But the FA are painfully out of touch. "People might get bored playing the same teams every year." - hello? Like their domestic leagues? Or the ever popular Six Nations? Jesus.

And as I said earlier, there's barely any recognition for the fact that we've already brought the Home Nations back. If anything it should be the FA approaching it's fellow governing bodies asking to join, not giving it the big ones. All of these articles have, at best, a sentence somewhere near the bottom pointing out "oh by the way, this already exists and is starting in a month or so."

Mate the reason they haven't aske to join the Nations Cup us because it's a one of thing pushed by the FA's new sponsors Vauxhall to celebrate the 150th Anniversary? And the Nations Cup has Ireland in it, so would actually be "the home nations plus Ireland"?