England back from the brink

Well I predicted it last month that England still had a chance to qualify for the European Championship after losing to Russia and tonight that prediction proved correct when Russia lost to Israel. Even if they'd lost to Israel tonight the result in Macedonia which saw as 2-0 victory against Croatia would've left the group wide open.

After all this England can't surely mess this one up and fail to qualify? Stranger things have happened but they should get through to the finals.

My commiseration also go to Scotland on losing narrowly to Italy, I've been up in Edinburgh for the past few days and there was a real buzz about the place and high expectations, sadly they just missed out but it was a brilliant effort in what was an extremely difficult group.