Apparently Robinson's been labelled as the fall guy for this one, which is pretty ridiculous if you ask me. Sure, his positioning was poor for the first goal, but Da Silva shouldn't have been allowed a free header in the first place. As for the second, he was unlucky to have the ball bobble in front of him, and it'd be unfair to criticise him too harshly for that. Besides, there's no point placing the blame on the keeper when our attack was so ineffective.

A loss against Croatia isn't as disastrous as it may seem - they've never lost a qualifying match at home - but the manner of the defeat was really quite embarrassing. While I can understand McClaren's intentions in trying to give us an alternative to 4-4-2, this really wasn't the time to be playing around with the system. Still, I get the feeling that we'd have lost no matter what formation we were using, since our big players simply aren't performing at the moment. Missing Gerrard and Hargreaves didn't help us either, since it left us without a decent tackler in midfield. At least there's a nice long break until the next qualifier, so England have some time to regroup, and the press can get off their backs a little.