I am hoping for a good England performance today.

I think some good sides are leaving and what do they have in common?

They don't take their chances and give the ball away at critical times.

So would like to see England comfortable on the ball and tight where they have often been sloppy.

Lukaku out so that is a bonus.

A poor team selection and correspondingly nil shots on goal against Belgium at half-time.

Can only get better but no penetration by us.

COY England

Yes but if Alli is fit there’s no way Loftus-Cheek Cheek is taking his place.

Looks like we are going to be the losers tonight but maybe the winners further down the line.

“ [T]here are known knowns; there are things we know that we know.There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that, we now know we don't know.But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don't know. ”
—United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld

If I were an England supporter I wouldn't be too down about the result, just as I wouldn't have been over excited by the other results. Columbia will be no pushovers but I think England stand a very good chance of beating them....as long as Phil Jones is left guarding the boots back at the training ground.

'Lies to the masses as are like fly's to mollasses...they want more and more and more'

It’s a good result for England, make no mistake about it.

We’ve just about scraped past Tunisia and put 6 past a Sunday league team.

Hysteria follows of course, but we ain’t beating Brazil.

The biggest worry for us now is Colombia, who are actually a good team. *If* we can get past them, then we have a real chance of going further than we have done in some time.

We’re still nowhere near the big boys of world football.

We're the Arthur over ere!