So the nation came to a halt yesterday. Tom, very good morning to you. I think that with

being told something like a million people took the afternoon off. There was lots and lots of pubs,

certainly around here, absolutely rammed with people. People wearing England shirts, filled to the

brims, people drinking. There was a load of people actually just being arrested outside of London

Bridge Station.

I thought, surely they'd have been up all night. But I think they had. But sort of carnival atmosphere yesterday, which was sort of squelched by the time we got to the second half. No, it was

absolutely dreadful, wasn't it? That early goal, everyone kind of thought, okay, maybe they've

turned this around off with that quite dull Serbia game as well but they just reverted to type didn't they it's just that incredibly cautious but

even if you're going to play cautious football do it well yes the pass is going all over the

it was it was dreadful and I think it really deflated any of that kind of lingering sense of

anticipation still around this tournament well now we've got the next game on Tuesday and

I mean I dare say people will get excited for it again

and it will be like well you know

as England players said last night

when we're still top of the table and that's true

but it doesn't give you much hope for the future

does it? It doesn't and also any kind of hope that

will be able to kind of kick on into the knockout

stages and actually do something. And it is interesting how, even

up until quite recently, a lot of people still be quite defensive of Garret Southgate,

particularly the pundits and some of the journalists. Yes, they were. But last night,

that's over now. All bets are now off. I mean, I was reading some of the comments on the

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