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INTERVIEW BY ALEX BYWATER: As she lay on a stretcher and was carried from the pitch with her broken leg in a splint and an oxygen mask helping her breathe, ...

Having people say it was a possibility from it being unlikely to very likely and then to being selected has made it a very fortunate transition. It's not as simple as physically getting her on to the field. So to have that support and to be able to plan ahead as a result has helped a lot in how I’ve been able to come back.’ I’m just so grateful I’ve been able to get back in time. ‘Her attitude is fantastic and she can't wait to play. ‘It would have been a bigger gamble not to take her,’ Middleton said of Dow. With the help of England’s medical team, a close support network and no little sacrifice from herself, the Wasps back has returned to fitness quickly enough to be in Simon Middleton’s squad. Dow was expected to be out for nine months. ‘For the first two or three or months, the million dollar question was whether I was on track. Play was stopped for nearly 15 minutes while she was treated before being taken to hospital. Then we tried to squeeze it down to six. It was Dow’s first serious injury and surgery was required.

Gareth Southgate has admitted some of his younger England players felt the weight of the shirt during a high-stress Nations League get-together.

“Against Italy we didn’t need the left-back cover [on the bench]; against Germany, we did because of the way we went with the team, so we needed Chilly on the bench. We have to keep instilling the belief and the confidence in them to be able to do it.” He has got the character to get over this because he’s a boy that has been from Sheffield United to Hull City … The manager added on Monday night that he had to “focus on our best players – unless that situation becomes untenable”. “We have talked about how the shirt feels and they are experiencing for the first time a little bit what some of the older ones have been through in the past. But Southgate was delighted with the quality and character they showed to take a 3-2 lead, even though a soft, late concession gave Germany a draw – feeling the emotion and experience would bolster them for the World Cup in Qatar, which kicks off in late November.

Jordan Nobbs and Beth England are among those missing from the England squad that will face the U.S. women's national team and the Czech Republic.

To beat the world champions ahead of it would be quite a statement - and even to play them will be fantastic preparation. Six of their meetings have ended in defeat for the Lionesses, with the lone draw a 2-2 thriller in 2019. Meanwhile, Esme Morgan is back in the squad for the first time in 12 months and earlier this year and they also drew twice with the Netherlands in World Cup qualifying." England have beaten the U.S. Nikita Parris and Lotte Wubben-Moy were also omitted from Sarina Wiegman's selection as she handed out first senior call-ups to Jess Park and Lucy Parker.

Beth England, Nikita Parris and Lotte Wubben-Moy have been left out of the Lionesses squad to play USA on 7 October then Czech Republic.

We have shown courage and really played with that to win and to prevent mistakes. “Playing the US, the No 1 in the world, is such a big occasion and another measurement for us of where we’re at,” said Wiegman. City’s defender Esme Morgan, who is yet to make her debut for the senior England side, has returned to the squad after a lengthy spell out injured. The Arsenal midfielder Jordan Nobbs has also been omitted after being recalled to the squad for the September camp. It’s not just that we’ll follow 22 or 24 players, we’ll follow a big group of players and pick the best ones. We look at quality, talent, being fit and having playing minutes with your team, then winning the competition with ones you are in the same position as.

Sarina Wiegman has picked her group for October's games with the USA at Wembley and Czech Republic at Brighton.

They created a brilliant atmosphere that helped inspire us on the pitch.” “It would also be wrong to underestimate how good the Czech team is with our next match. Firstly, the US will be welcomed to a sold-out Wembley Stadium connected by EE, scene of the memorable July final when

England manager Sarina Wiegman says that her side respects the U.S. women's national team, but they should respect England as well after the Euros.

Before becoming a coach, Wiegman played with the likes of Mia Hamm and Kristine Lilly at the University of North Carolina. and England with Wiegman in charge of the Lionesses. I think they’re excited too, I don’t think the Americans have fear but they’ve also seen how good we’ve done in the Euros and I think they will respect us too and that’s what we do with them too."

Manager Sarina Wiegman has named a 24-player Lionesses squad to face world champions USA and Czech Republic in October; Euro 2022 winners Fran Kirby and ...

"Calm, calm - pass it in the goal." "We go to Brighton, we have good experience of being there and they are nice fans. "I tried that in training yesterday and messed it all up," she told Sky Sports after the game. "It is really nice we can go to Wembley again and it's sold out," said Wiegman. She's really happy to come in and see where she's at. And it's a good opportunity to do that.

LONDON, Sept 27 (Reuters) - England midfielder Fran Kirby and forward Chloe Kelly have returned to the squad after injury to face world champions the United ...

game will see the FA marking 50 years since the first Lionesses match on Nov. 7 for the first time since lifting their first major trophy in front of a record crowd last July and will take on the Czechs at Falmer Stadium in Brighton on Oct. The U.S. They created a brilliant atmosphere that helped inspire us on the pitch." England will play at Wembley stadium against the U.S. "The challenge of facing the world champions is one we look forward to and it is another tough fixture to measure our progress as we look to continue to make the next step forward."

City youngster Jess Park has been called up to the England squad for the first time ahead of the upcoming international break.

[Alex Greenwood](https://www.mancity.com/players/alex-greenwood) (Manchester City), [Esme Morgan](https://www.mancity.com/players/esme-morgan) (Manchester City), Lucy Parker (West Ham United), [Demi Stokes](https://www.mancity.com/players/demi-stokes) (Manchester City), Leah Williamson (Arsenal) [Lauren Hemp](https://www.mancity.com/players/lauren-hemp) (Manchester City), Lauren James (Chelsea), [Chloe Kelly](https://www.mancity.com/players/chloe-kelly) (Manchester City), Beth Mead (Arsenal), Alessia Russo (Manchester United), Ebony Salmon (Houston Dash) [Sandy MacIver](https://www.mancity.com/players/sandy-maciver) (Manchester City), [Ellie Roebuck](https://www.mancity.com/players/ellie-roebuck) (Manchester City) [Sandy MacIver](https://www.mancity.com/players/sandy-maciver), [Ellie Roebuck](https://www.mancity.com/players/ellie-roebuck), [Alex Greenwood](https://www.mancity.com/players/alex-greenwood), [Esme Morgan](https://www.mancity.com/players/esme-morgan), [Demi Stokes](https://www.mancity.com/players/demi-stokes), [Lauren Hemp](https://www.mancity.com/players/lauren-hemp) and [Chloe Kelly](https://www.mancity.com/players/chloe-kelly) have also been given the nod by Sarina Wiegman ahead of friendlies against the United States and the Czech Republic in October. [Hayley Raso](https://www.mancity.com/players/hayley-raso) and [Mary Fowler](https://www.mancity.com/players/mary-fowler) have also been selected for the Matildas’ upcoming friendlies, but [Alanna Kennedy](https://www.mancity.com/players/alanna-kennedy) misses out through injury. [Man City](https://www.mancity.com) app. [Kerstin Casparij](https://www.mancity.com/players/kerstin-casparij) in the latter of those two fixtures, with the defender also facing Zambia on Thursday 6 October in a 17:45 kick-off. [Julie Blakstad](https://www.mancity.com/players/julie-blakstad) too, who will join up with Norway when they face Brazil and the Netherlands across the international break on Friday 7 and Tuesday 11 October respectively. Fran Kirby (Chelsea), Jessica Park (Everton, loan from Manchester City), Georgia Stanway (Bayern Munich), Ella Toone (Manchester United), Keira Walsh (Barcelona), Katie Zelem (Manchester United) Millie Bright (Chelsea), Lucy Bronze (Barcelona), Jess Carter (Chelsea), Rachel Daly (Aston Villa),

Jordan Nobbs and Beth England are among those missing from the England squad that will face the U.S. women's national team and the Czech Republic.

To beat the world champions ahead of it would be quite a statement - and even to play them will be fantastic preparation. Six of their meetings have ended in defeat for the Lionesses, with the lone draw a 2-2 thriller in 2019. Meanwhile, Esme Morgan is back in the squad for the first time in 12 months and earlier this year and they also drew twice with the Netherlands in World Cup qualifying." England have beaten the U.S. Nikita Parris and Lotte Wubben-Moy were also omitted from Sarina Wiegman's selection as she handed out first senior call-ups to Jess Park and Lucy Parker.

The Wasps wing suffered the horrible injury during the Six Nations match against Wales and was told she would almost certainly be missing out on the World ...

Now we’re trying to squeeze it down a bit more.” We’d been building for this event for five years and the thought of ‘it’s me’ was going through my head." We tried to squeeze it down to six, at one point using five different machines at the same time.

Michael Winterbottom's mini-series turns the floundering former prime minister into a tragic theatrical hero.

Kenneth Branagh is "utterly convincing" as former UK PM in This England – but a "fiction based on real events" is flawed when those events are still ...

Cut to a shot of thousands of bats flying from a cave and then a shot of a Chinese wet market. You would love to be a fly on the wall if Day and Cummings ever meet. In the first episode Johnson gives a triumphant post-election speech to jubilant staff at Conservative Party HQ, promising that 2020 will be "a year of prosperity, growth and hope". There are cowled figures standing by a river and a sombre-looking Carrie holding a screaming baby while some of Johnson's adult children intone quasi-mystical reproaches to their father. And why "a fiction based on real events" rather than a documentary? How many scenes of exhausted medics on the phone relaying the devastating news of the death of a loved one to the bereaved? And amidst all the drama about the politicians, there are the stories of ordinary people afflicted with the virus and then – more often than not – dying. We move rapidly from Downing Street to a hospital, the Department of Health, a Sage meeting, a care home. Kenneth Branagh [suggested](https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/kenneth-branagh-on-playing-boris-he-has-a-certain-loneliness-8w0bqmq0b): "Any way of understanding it better is important." April 23rd is the date on which Shakespeare's birthday is generally marked and the bard is threaded through this drama. This is the first instance of the pretty heavy-handed dramatic irony that features regularly in episode one. It opens with the on-screen notice "This is a fiction based on real events"; a tricksy formulation that allows the filmmakers to claim verisimilitude while also exercising a considerable amount of artistic licence.

The former Prime Minister is played by Ken Branagh, the Belfast-born, Oscar-winning, Shakespeare-whispering knight of the realm. Despite the layers of ...

To leave them out is like making a drama about the Titanic and omitting the iceberg. It is sprawling and baggy and yes, it should have touched on the parties. Yet there is also the Boris who is prone to having Churchill’s black dogs of depression at his heel; the Boris who is kind to his beloved mother, who gets up at night to feed the baby. Also having a bad time of it is Carrie Johnson (Ophelia Lovibond), who at one point is seen on the toilet. Yet the Government is slow to act on lockdown, on testing, on protective equipment. It is 2019 and Johnson has won the leadership.

Thought you'd seen the last of Boris Johnson on telly? Well Michael Winterbottom's 'This England', starring Kenneth Branagh, will shock you.

At times This England feels like BBC political satire The Thick of It, especially in scenes where Cummings and his cronies are brainstorming PR slogans to win the public trust. As Boris blithely shakes hands with patients (not doing so will be like “Churchill hiding in a bunker”, he says), even his pregnant wife Carrie (Ophelia Lovibond) gets the fear and scuttles back to her flat in Camberwell to socially distance from her own husband. Still, this isn’t an entire hatchet job, with Boris even painted sympathetically when he contracts the virus (though his hallucinations, all shot in black-and-white like a bad classic movie, we could do without).

Kenneth Branagh as Boris Johnson in This England. Phil Fisk/Sky UK. By. James Hibbs. Published: Wednesday, 28th September ...

It might be that in 10 years time it is seen as a failure, or it could be seen as a triumph. This England is a deep-dive into a period of time in British life, told through the lens of how we all viewed it and experienced it while it was happening. For those who lost loved ones to COVID or who are still deeply affected by the events of 2020, there's no doubt some of the scenes in This England will be deeply upsetting. The first is the politics of it all. This is almost certainly the case, yet with time, even understandable knee-jerk reactions and intuitions can fade, and more viewers might be able to watch the drama soberly and judge it as such. At the time when This England was first developed, it was the almost unquestioned consensus that the virus had developed in bats before being spread to humans. Everyone wants to minimise the impact on people's lives and wants to minimise deaths and wants to be as rapid as possible. It's a day-by-day recreation of exactly what Winterbottom and his team understand to have been happening at the time, even down to individual experiences in care homes. It's difficult to think of an event in recent memory which shaped our daily life in the way COVID did, or which was as all-consuming. The depiction of the Government is not exactly a glowing one, as Number 10 is shown to focus almost all of its attention on PR alone, particularly before the worst hits. This explanation too falls apart, given that the pandemic was the biggest, most widely-acknowledged event the country has experienced in most of our lifetimes. It's engaging, well-paced and Branagh and the rest of the cast are all fantastic (Andrew Buchan is a particular stand-out as Matt Hancock).

England are playing four matches in November, against Argentina, Japan, New Zealand and South Africa. When are England's 2022 Autumn International matches?

In the final match, England braced out to an early lead against South African before being pegged back by the visitors. England were involved in three Autumn Internationals last year. Manu Tuilagi is also likely to be involved provided he maintains his fitness, while the likes of Marcus Smith, Henry Arundell and Will Joseph will offer exciting cutting edge. In the forwards, expect captain Courtney Lawes, Maro Itoje and Tom Curry to have a huge influence. All four of England's Autumn Internationals will be broadcast live on the online streaming platform Amazon Prime. Visit englandrugby.com for more information.

But look close enough, this isn't Boris Johnson, but actor Sir Kenneth Branagh who takes on the role as the prime minister in the upcoming political drama, This ...

He also directed and appeared in three films: the romance thriller Dead Again, the horror picture Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, and the action thriller Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit. - Simon Kunz as Andrew Mills - Simon Paisley Day as Dominic Cummings - Tim Goodman as Stanley Johnson - James Corrigan as Isaac Levido - Alec Nicholls as Sir Patrick Vallance - Andrew Buchan as Matt Hancock (2014). - Sir Kenneth Branagh as Boris Johnson - Ophelia Lovibond as Carrie Symonds (later Johnson) Sir Kenneth Branagh stars as Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and the drama follows his response to the COVID-19 epidemic in 2020, as well as his personal encounter with the virus. But look close enough, this isn’t Boris Johnson, but actor Sir Kenneth Branagh who takes on the role as the prime minister in the upcoming political drama, This England.