Orson Scott Card saw potential in his young protagonist and instantly set to work developing the short fiction into a longer work. Already he had two novels in mind, Enders Game and its sequel Speaker for the Dead, published the following year in 1986. Card ...

The long legs of Peter Crouch were enough to send England home happy with all three points and top spot in Group E. Until the breakthrough early in the second half, many of the two thousand England fans present in the stadium will have watched with apprehension as the team entrusted to bring a bright new post-Eriksson era failed to break down a stubborn Macedonian defence fresh from an opening day victory against Estonia. The game started in scrappy fashion, the opening twenty minutes a succession of free kicks whistled by an over-fussy referee.