England was definetely humiliated by the Tie-Land performance yesterday as their hope for Euro 2008 was being washed out in the rain that fell at Wembley stadium before the game. This is England’s first failure to qualify for the finals of a major tournament since missing out on the World Cup in America in 1994.

It was a nightmare for the coutry who claims as the home of football. With a team consist of multi-millions pounds players, Steve McClaren not be able to make them qualify to Austria and Switzerland next summer.

The most talented players with big name like Steven Gerrard, Frank Lampard, David Beckham, Joe Cole and the promising youth stars in Juleon Lescott and Micah Richards looks like hopeless and playing without any motivation and guidance.

The England performance last night reminds me of Newcastle United when we lost against Pompey.

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Now who’s going to take the responsibility for Michael Owen’s latest injury in a “friendly” match against Austria? Michael Owen will be out for the next “important” match for England against Croatia on Wednesday and Newcastle United Premiership match against Liverpool on Saturday.

“Injuries are part of football and unfortunately we need to win on Wednesday and I do believe we are going to be without two centre halves and our two centre forwards.” McClaren said “There is spirit in there and they want to do it as much for the fans as anybody. Who could get 4,000 fans to a friendly in Austria? Only England.”

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