[Locke]

I just got an opportunity watch bits of this:

England being England, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

And it kind of was a defeat, Russia was more or less free points, they are by far the worst team in this group so now England needs points against Wales and Slovakia, two teams that are not going to roll over and die for them.

I'd say that despite the earlier pessimism Rooney in midfield worked pretty well.

The best part for me was right after Dier's goal the whole team goes to celebrate on the sidelines and the poor camera guy gets caught in the action and they knocked him over! I hope one of them gave the dude their jersey afterwards.

On the Russian goal I agree with DeVos, thats on Rose, hes the fullback, defending that post is his job and he had no awareness of Berezutsky and he didnt attack the ball at all. He had every intention of letting that ball fly over his head with absolutely no knowledge of who was around him.

Full marks to the Russians though, they played a crap game, barely challenged England at all and yet walk away with a point. I doubt they'll get another.

Finally though, look at the body language of the players at the end of that game, Cahill, Dier and Kane look like England just got eliminated from the tournament.

Its a rough result but it isnt the end of the world, I'm sure most people had that match chalked up as 3 points for England and easing the pressure on them making it through the group.

But goals? Where are the goals? Rooney is a notorious no-show when it counts, but come on, there are tons of goals in this team but where are they? Needing a free kick against arguably the worst team in the tournament?

The pundits were raking Roy over the coals prior to this game because he lined up a serious attacking team. Where was it?