Over at The Mail and The Mirror.
As ever, particularly in the press, England will eat itself.

Not for the faint of heart:

Peter Crouch demonstrating that whatever it is that makes a fellow a good dancer, he ain’t got it.

Over at The Independent, they’ve got a bone to pick with the result of the Hungary match. According to their pundits:
1) Sven got lucky.
and
2) Really, Sven had no plan.
Um, fellas: it was 3-1, should have been 4-1, and it wasn’t exactly hard-fought. I think for a warm-up it went pretty well.

All in all, not the most satisfying of matches, although the job got done.
In the first half, England had almost no ideas in the attacking third — despite having one solid header off a Beckham cross, Owen was useless, and Gerrard was too far back, it seemed to me. Clearly the offense [...]

I don’t have the literal or figurative bandwith to LiveBlog today’s match, but I’ll be watching it on TIVO and posting my reactions later. Feel free to use this space for your own observations until then.

Tuesday night brings a classic rivalry to Old Trafford: England vs. Hungary. Sven says he’ll be using his full first-team and it should be a much more telling exhibit of what Germany will look like than the B-team run-out against Belarus.
The BBC previews the match.

Thanks to Sean for his live blog of the match, which I couldn’t have watched even if it were on view here in the Western USA.
As for the result: whatever. Nobody was keeping score, not on the team level anyhow.
On the individual level, Theo Walcott did some damage, Michael Owen didn’t injure himself, [...]

This is my attempt at LiveBlogging. Thanks to England Blogger Shawn for letting me grace his blog for a few hours. I am a footie fan, always cheering for the underdawg. As for England…I have liked them in the past, not sure how I feel about them now. I am [...]