The first goal came on the 26th minute, Emile Heskey's penalty shout was dismissed by the referee, but 19 year old Theo Walcott found the ball at his feet after after one of Croatia's lot messed up a clearance. Then Theo drilled it into the bottom right hand corner.

Then into the second half they had Robert Kovac sent off. The dirty b****rd elbowed Joe Cole in the old cannister making it bleed. Six minutes later that was all forgotten, as big fat Wayne Rooney set Theo up for his second, a beautiful goal in which he smashed into the back of the net.

Rooney then went from provider to scorer on the 63rd minute, the Scouser finally breaking his England goal drought by firing a Jermaine Jenas ball into the corner of the net.

The Croatians did go on to get a consolation goal; Mandzukic drove the ball under 'keeper David James, Well done them but on the night we were superior and despite scoring this late goal they had no real chance of getting back into it. 

England's forth and final goal was scored on the 82nd minute, Theo Walcott raced forward again, Rooney slipped Theo the ball, he then carried on dashing up the pitch before finally putting it away. Scoring his first England hat-trick and becoming the youngest player ever to score a hat-trick for England.

The win put's The Three Lions in a commanding position at the top of the group six standings and after the disappointment of missing out on Euro 2008, things are looking good for qualifying for the next World Cup. However I'm not going to get carried away, although the result was impressive, we were playing against 10 men for most of the second half, were typically fatigue sets in and everything goes all Pete Tong, so the challenge now; is to perform as-well against 11 men for 90 minutes.

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