Well, that was fun! Another abject performance by the English national side which resulted in a very disappointing 2-0 defeat. The papers, as you may have seen are full of condemnation for Paul Robinson's fatal error for the second goal. Personally I am of the opinion that Gary Neville should have kicked it forward. Hard. Maybe Robinson could have been better placed for the first goal, but the second goal was a pure fluke, a million to one chance, and it was just unlucky that it went passed him. The biggest complaint I have however, is that the manager, Steve McClaren, waited until England were 2-0 down before switching the team back to the more traditional 4-4-2. He should have changed it at half time, when it was apparent to all those watching that the 3-5-2 formation was not working as well as we all expected. Ashley Cole is possibly the best left-back in the world at the moment, and he is very good at staying wide and attacking. But Gary Neville has not got the pace to run the whole right wing and definitely needs Steven Gerrard or Shaun Wright - Phillips in front off him.

But lets not get carried away with slagging off the England team, (and as a Liverpool fan, having a pop at Gary Neville is always fair game) the Croatian side played out of their skins and deserved the win. On the night, they were simply more up for it than England were.

Staying with British sides, It was good to see Wales getting their first win off the competiton against a Cyprus side that beat Ireland last weekend. Hopefully the win will give Craig Bellamy a confidence boost ahead of Liverpool's game against Blackburn this weekend. From what I saw of the Scotland game in Kiev, against a very good Ukraine side, it appears they were harshly treated by the referee, having a man sent off for a very feeble looking challenge on Shevchenko, who, as usual fell over and dived around like Greg Louganis on speed.

This constant cheating is ruining the game. Shevchenko and all the other divers and cheats, players like Ajren Robben, Didier Drogba, Cristiano Ronaldo and that fella from Tottenham who name escapes me, should be punished with a red card and automatic 3 game suspension if the ref catches them and an automatic ban if a panel of official's decides they cheated. We already have a video panel that decides if a player committed a foul and punishes accordingly, why can't they do the same for the divers?