Well, we still won the war

But that is scant consolation (well, it's not really - but dramatic licence...) after another absolutely dire England performance.

Do I not like that

England's miserable performance in Zagreb evoked the darkest days of Graham Taylor's reign.
Rob Smyth
October 11, 2006 07:52 PM

Now we know for sure that Steve McClaren is not Sven Mk II: England would never, ever have lost this badly under the managership of Sven-Goran Eriksson. This was a shambles; a proper doing; a miserable, cowering performance that evoked the darkest days of Graham Taylor - chiefly the dismal 2-0 defeat in Norway in 1993.

Then, as now, England switched suddenly to 5-3-2 before the game. Then, as now, they struggled to put two passes together. Then, as now, the match moved insidiously from tricky test into outright humiliation against a side which, while competent, belonged emphatically in the second tier of European football.

And that pretty much sums it up. I hate fly by night sports supporters - but not as much as I hate it when 'my teams' suck quite this hard.