This is England

So England are off and running. Sort of. Today's performance showed that Eriksson still hasn't learned from the mistakes of the last two major tournaments: players continuously moved out of position, negative subsitutions that hand the initiative back to the opposition and an inability to change the pattern of the game once it starts going against us. Another second half show like that in the knock out stages and it'll be goodbye for another four years. At least Theo Walcott might be ready to play then.

I fell asleep with ten minutes to go, although that may have had more to do with the fact that I was up at 6am to go to work. On the way home a young mother got on the metro with a toddler and a pushchair piled high with boxes of Budweiser beer. It's fair enough caring more about beer than the comfort of your child, but drinking Budweiser?! And this in the week that an eight year old girl was diagnosed with repetitive strain injury from sending text messages on her mobile phone. England's future is bright indeed.