Flares back in fashion.Ukraine 1 England 0 in the Dnepro Arena.
Defensive mistakes that didn't really matter as we had already qualified or an inherent weakness that will continue to be exposed.
Take your pick.
Goals being conceded must frustrate coach Capello.
And the seeming reliance on livewire Rooney looks fragile.
Ukraine were certainly up for it, they passed well and limited England to few chances.
Their fans were eager with the flares. At the start, and when Shevchenko contrived to miss the penalty that followed Robert Green being sent off.
In Dnepropetrovosk the weather was not too cold, the scenery conducive and the xenophobic youths generally controlled. Much might well have been different with an alternative result or, worst of all, an abandonment.
Culturally I visited the History Museum, Monastery Island and joined the locals strolling around Park Shevchenka as the leaves fell and winter felt closer.
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