Soca Warriors!

Well, crikey. That's put a shine on the day. Abba! Bjorn Borg! Online Poker Players! Your boys took a hell of a beating! (well, not beating, obviously, but still...)

What can one say about the game other than it couldn't have turned out better? As well as the instinctive supporting of the fairy tale underdogs 0-0 is of course a tremendous result for England.

A word about Caribbean stereotyping though...I'm sure that the relaxedness about time is well observed, and the flair and colour and enthusiasm and jubilance of the fans is there for all to see, but SOMEONE TELL TYLSEDSLEY TO STOP IT! The worst offence, possibly was to suggest that Leo Beenhacker, who has masterminded a remarkable turnaround in the fortunes of Trinidad and Tobagan football, would say "hey, just chill out" as his team talk to a team that had been doing anything but chilling out...

Anyway, ignorant commentating stereotyping aside (and let's face it, it was always likely to crop up) it was an immense performance from the T+T team and Swedes everywhere must be rueing the fact that most of their best chances fell to Allback and not Larrson or Ibrahimovic...

All this means that if England can succeed where Sweden failed they'll be through in two games, which will of course be good for nervous systems the length and breadth of the land...

EDIT - how remiss of me not to mention Wilhelmson's single strand mullet!!!!!