Theo Walcott was England’s hat-trick hero as Fabio Capello’s side thrashed Croatia 4-1 in their World Cup qualifying tie in Zagreb.
The 19-year-old opened the scoring on 26 minutes and, despite damaging one of his boots in the first half returned to find the net again in the 59th and 82nd minutes.
Wayne Rooney grabbed England’s other goal on 63 minutes, with Mario Mandzukic scoring the consolation goal for Croatia in the 78th minute.
See today’s Express & Star for full match report and reactions - and have your say in the Comment Box below
16 Comments
I wouldn’t know I couldn’t watch it…
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Had to go up the town to watch it on Sultana, but it was worth every penny. Capello earnt every bit of his massive wage.
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GREAT GAME AND A BRILLANT PERFORMANCE BY OUR BOYS REALLY PLEASED HAD TO GO AND WATCH IT AT MY MATES THOUGH MONEY AND THE FA RUIN EVERYTHING
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I was lucky enough to be able to watch it and we were excellent. I later played back part of the game and saw us pass the ball 44 times without a Croatien getting anywhere near. It was Munich and 5-1 all over again. Long may it continue.
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Dont shout too loud and too long lads, its been a long time since we played and won that good and it’ll be a long time before it happens again…..Believe me.
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Quality england, thank you for restoring some of my faith. I thought every player was qulity
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great game and at last some passion,hope theres more to come,,there number 4 was a disgrace…well done england….
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Good performance, we contained them well when they had 11 men, but once they had a man sent off we had so much space.
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No.5 just do one…
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Great result, what an absolute joke that Setanta was showing the match.
I have sky but all internationals should be on ITV or BBC if you ask me.
Lets hope somethings done about it because Setanta are greedy gits.
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Was good to see a WOLVES St Georges flag in the crowd!!
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ALL
English football played at it’s best !!!
Fast, Direct & no time for Croatia to think let alone string passes together
Well Done Fabio …. 4-4-2 is the best & always will be
BOING BOING
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Had a lie in today. In fact I’m still asleep dreaming that England beat Croatia 4-1
Think I’ll stay in bed today and maybe Wolves will beat Charlton by the same score
Ah, dreams!
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11. Tipton. I saw that flag mate. To be fair we always have a great following at England games. When I was at the world cup in Germany there was no other team better represented than Wolves. This was confirmed by my two mates who were Sunderland and Watford fans.
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joke that sultana get the england games they are irish owned so let them have the irish games - surely the FA have gota do sumat bout it and let everyone watch ther national side!!!!
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11. It was also good to see WBA enblazoned in the top right hand corner of a St George Flag just after the teams came onto the pitch! Boing Boing!!!!
Not getting too excited, we’ve got Belarus next, knowing England we’ll lose!
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