WHAT WOULD NICK AND CHRIS SAY ABOUT ENGLAND'S SHAME...?

So England lost again at football. This country needs to take a long, hard look at its team and our ambitions for international football based on this supremely dreadful performance.

Croatia were excellent, playing the perfect away game: defending when necessary and being fast and ambitious on the break. England by contrast fumbled the ball, passed it more often than not to the opposition and generlly looked like a team without ambition.

Only the superb David Beckham gave 100%, running from end to end, getting involvd in as much of the play as possible and floating in the perfect cross which set up Peter Crouch for a wonderful goal.

Then England sat back - and Croatia scored, as they were always going to. They had 11 players, we had 2: Beckham and Crouch.

As for the manager, yes he's as limited as a shell company in the Canaries but blame should not be ascribed to him alone. The players are to blame. They are a bunch of 'stars' with no ambition to win for England at all.

MY advice for the new manager - please let it be El Tel again! - is to pick players from the Championship. We may not be as strong but at least we'll have 11 players on the pitch who want to be there and who care about the result.