Yes, I must admit among all the mistakes he made, mainly involving giving the ball away, I did notice he did one of those salmon-like dives that he has made his very own.

He's a waste of time, utter toss.

So

Despite having numerous players out through injury, despite missing our best player for the first 2 games with suspension, despite having a new manager only 3 weeks in the job, despite being in a group with the host nation, a team we've never beaten in a competitive fixture, and a team over 20 games unbeaten......

We are just a draw away from qualifying for the quarters with our best player to return.

That's not too shabby in anyones book.

He was awful tonight, agreed. He definitely deserves to he dropped.for the next game in place of Walcott or The Ox. Have been impressed with Welbeck so far, for a change. Rooney and Carroll could be devastatingly good though.

Agreed. An even better job that we have such a world class line-up of commentators and pundits that are soundly advising him as well. Line of the night came from Lawro: "England's defenders seem to be running back."

Not to mention Hansen, should of heard him the other night on about Ibra, doesn't do enough, doesn't rate him and doesn't score enough goals apparantley.

But you must admit it was a good substitution from hodgson. Inspired even, it was an almost instant reaction to going 2-1 down.

All top quality manager make decisive game changing subs like that, don't they?

Young was terrible and how Johnson got the MOM I don't know. He is out of position so often its ridiculous. We're having to reduce our pace on the right by starting Milner to cover for when Johnson goes walkabout.

Still I suppose we showed we can score goals without Rooney in the side. It'll be interesting to see who Rooney will come in for. You'd probably say Young deserves to be dropped on form but I can't see it as it would mean changing the system quite dramatically, unless he wants to play Welbeck on the left, but I'm not sure thats the best way to use him.

All in all we need to improve in every department. The midfield so been very poor so far, they work hard but there's no cutting edge, from Parker inparticular.

Can't stand Hansen, he's a bitter jock, and I don't know why Lawro bothers watching the game, he makes 1 positive comment per game.

I think it's funny with lawro, he just chips in with sarcastic snide remarks

has been living off the Croatia game for years, he's not good enough". Boom, eat that old man. They should get Stan Collymore on the BBC, passion and enthusiasm for the game and he also offers some insight having played the game in the last 20 years.

England were fine tonight, playing very positively when they finally got the ball off the Swedes. The only problem with tonight's performance was that they weren't able to keep the ball in midfield which meant they were always in danger of dropping too deep. England have many problems, but the main one for me is the centre of midfield. I thought Gerrard had a reasonable game tonight, but Parker, for all his effort, is extremely poor technically.

Milner continues to annoy me. He put in a couple of half decent crosses tonight, but is so far away from deserving an England shirt that it's not funny. Theo was sensational tonight when he came on, perhaps that is the right way to use him. Finally a player had the guts to go at someone.

Tough decisions ahead for Hodgson. The fact we only need a draw could well cost England IMO, as he's likely to pick Milner, Parker and Gerrard again and make only one change, bringing Rooney in for one of the front two. I don't see why they don't abandon the width and go with Jones, Gerrard and Rooney in midfield and Carroll, Young and Wellbeck up front.

Some more hideously obvious anti-England refereeing tonight. There seems to be two sets of rules, one for England and one for the non-English sides. There were some absolutely blatant examples again tonight. Like when Scott Parker was shoved in the back and pushed over the side line and a throw in to Sweden was given and when Lescott won a header cleanly and a free kick was given. I don't know what Gerrard has to do to get a free kick on the edge of the box. Perhaps his reputation for diving is going before him, but the one against France was a knee to the thigh and tonight there was another clear foul ignored.

Milner is in there for his workrate. Someone's got to do the running for that midfield, Gerrard and Parker get less and less mobile as the game goes on. Nice to see Walcott go at the defence for the 3rd, but let's not get carried away, I still think Chamberlain is a better all round player.

I was think something similar, 4-3-3, with Jones/Parker, and Gerrard as holding players with Young or even Milner in there in an attacking role, with Carroll up top with Rooney and Welbeck either side. I doubt he'll change the system too much though.