Its the best I could do with what was available.

Group   C

Colombia  2               Ivory Coast  1

Rodriguez (64)                     Gervinho (73)

Quintero (70)

Looks like these two teams are going to top the group, and Colombia will play the runners up in England's group.

Group   C

Japan   0               Greece  0

Nothing to see here.   Move along please.

Group   D

Louis Suarez  2        England   1

Suarez (39, 85)                   Rooney (75)

Right, I have been thinking all night and all morning how to approach this, I went for a walk and tried to turn it over in my head.  Do I go with the positives or do I go with the old fashioned, we are not good enough rant.  There is still a positive to take from this, and the main one  is how on earth are we still in this competition when we have lost both our opening games.  In a way we are lucky that we are in the group we are in.  As for all the permutations about how we can still get through, that don't matter, whether or not Italy win their two remaining games that don't matter.  We have got to go into the last game against Costa Rica and beat them.  Not just beat them by a scrappy 1-0, but absolutely batter them 4 or 5.  I would like to think that Italy have enough about them to beat Costa Rica tonight, and if they beat them convincingly then who knows. after all its not like the goal difference is unassailable.  Even if Italy don't do us a favour, we have to go out of this competition as winners of our final match, and convincing winners at that.  It don't matter if it's not enough at the end of the day, although some people might say if we do win well in our last game, why didn't we do that in the first place.  I simply say to those people surely it's better to do at some point than not do it at all.   On the other hand if we just turn up and go through the motions then it will be just the same old England , going out with a whimper, just like in 2010.

Anyway I shall be watching Italy tonight with my fingers crossed and hoping we get one more shot.  If not,  well it would have been another disappointing showing in a world cup our worst though, worryingly since 1958.  

Oh and one final positive, at least we don't have Steve McClaren as our manager.  YAAY!!

It must be terrible to be known as England's worst ever manager.  He is even below Cappello and a man who now throw's cider over himself for a living, Graham Taylor. 

Steve McClaren was the luckiest England manager there has ever been.  He only got the job because Scolari didn't take it., despite the FA trying to convince us that he was their man.  When we lost our penultimate game in qualifying against Russia for the 2008 Euros it looked all over, but then a strange twist of fate, an unlikely result amazingly put qualification back in England's and big Mac's hands.  We only needed to draw against Croatia to qualify.  McClaren had said after the Russia defeat that there were still some twists and turns and all though it wasn't in his hands at that point he was still confident.  He was right and weren't he  smug about it afterwards  Not at the final whistle versus Croatia he wasn't though standing in the pissing down rain with his umbrella whilst his team manages to lose.  McClaren was given a lifeline and he still couldn't make it work.  

Lets hope if Italy give us a lifeline tonight we don't do a McClaren with it, and it don't rain on Tuesday and Hodgeson doesn't come out holding a fucking umbrella.

Come on Italy!!!!