Day of reckoning...............

After all the waiting, as per normal with England, it comes down to 90 minutes.

We are not talking about winning the World Cup here, we are talking about getting out of one of the easiest Groups of all time....................... Sad isn't it.

Looks like we can chalk one up for Capello with no Joe Cole in the starting line up, let's just hope he's not cutting off his nose to spite his face.

I'm not getting involved in any market on this game as there is too much at stake any way. If I was however it would definitely be in the World Cup Winner market. At the time of writing you could back them at 11.5 and with any sort of performance this will come down to 9 at least I would think. Their route to the Semi's does look quite straght forward if they could find a bit of form from somewhere.

One last thing when you look at all the troubles in the French Camp and the Issues we've had too, where does it all stem from? Anelka, Evra, Terry, Rooney - That's right you've guessed it all overpaid prima donnas playing in the Premiership.

I must confess after following Football passionately for over 30 years, my interest is starting to wane.

Anyway now is not the time for this, GOOD LUCK ENGLAND! and even if you don't win at least look like you've given it your all for the Badge.

Edit 17.04

Ok forget the easy route to the Semi's line because that is no longer the case............. Also given Terry a fair amount of stick on here before but today he looked like he would die for that shirt, one moment changed what I think of him, diving headlong with his nose 3 inches of the ground to try and block a Slovenia shot. Fair Play that's what we all wanted to see. As for Rooney I do hope he is still carrying an injury, because surely that is the only reason for what we have seen over the last three games????