Cahill is conspicuous by his absence and Rooney is always an offence to my eyes.

Jones is being taken out of the midfield, great news....

Hes now in defence.....Oh!!!!!

A friendly maybe, but I will be inconsolable should we lose to Italy.

England quite pedestrian and not doing much to create chances. Same old story.

I actually like Roy as England manager its a bit like the general election in there is no credible alternative..... At least Roy is doing what we have been screaming for years I.e. Play some in form youngsters.

However if he is going to experiment with formations in friendlies fine, but at least a formation that makes some sense with players in positions where they at least have a clue of what their role is

When Roy stands around he looks like he has no clue where he is or why he is there.

When Roy stands around he looks like he has no clue where he is or why he is there.[/quote

Mr Potato head has more animation

Much better this half but he was forced into the change really

Jagielka (spelling ?) has been very good

Hope to be proven wrong of course, but is it just me or is Barkley sh*te.

That sums Berkeley up for me, no real vision and plays with his head down far too much.

I appreciate he's what only 22, but the guy just has absolutely no guile/intelligence (unlike the Italians)

Hazard was just subbed in the 63rd min against Israel away. Thank you, Mark Wilmots!

 

And in the next minute, Kompany gets himself stupidly sent off. Two seasons ago he was the best defender in the world. He's really fallen down.

It's a friendly of course but this is a reminder of last summer in terms of a lack of cohesion and 'flow'. It's very scrappy and we are not a threat. This is like a premonition of the next European Championship :-(

England have been awful. Everytime any of the England players get closed down, they panic and lose the ball. English players fearing failure every time they come up against any kind of decent team is really getting boring now. There isn't another international football team like England. I have never seen so many players so often play so poor for their country and then play well for their clubs.

Get in Andros!

Wow. What a strike.

oof, finish.

About time we did something good.

Wow ! He must really piss off The Spuds he only does it in an England shirt

Hoorah

A decent spell for us and a good level of energy. English fans comfortably out-singing the Italians too.

Wow ! He must really piss off The Spuds he only does it in an England shirt

Yes :-)

Pleased for the lad though.

Berkeley is a liability, and when did Henderson go off.

Bertrand scoring now would make my day.

Veratti has bossed the middle of the park.