Wolves legend Steve Bull gives it to you straight with what key changes he would make to the England team for the next World Cup game with Algeria.

There will be a marked difference in atmosphere within the England dressing room tomorrow night.

For the opening match, there would have been tension and real anxiety. It’s now part of World Cup law that you simply cannot lose the opening game and yet England faced the toughest opponent of their group, expected to win but mindful of the United States’ ability to make things really hard for us.

Yes, the players would have experienced massive tension. I know because I remember the England dressing room before our start in the World Cup of 1990 against the Republic of Ireland, who to us were just like the Americans to Fabio Capello’s team.

Very familiar, very tough and very dangerous. We didn’t get beat but we didn’t set the world alight. I bet Spain would settle for that today.

I knew exactly what Steven Gerrard and the players were thinking when that performance began to prey on their mind. As England players, whether you like it or not, you are already starting to imagine the reaction you will get off the press and the fans if you don’t deliver. That’s all part of the anxiety that riddled the performance.

But now there will be a different mood. Anxiety will be overtaken by a buzz, an excitement, because the boys will know that now it gets serious. The stakes are rising, victory is a must, time to raise your game.

I think they will and I think the outcome will be a solid victory over the Algerians. I’m not looking for fireworks yet, just steady progress and I think we will get it.

I will be amazed if we don’t get out of this group. They started so well against the Americans that I thought we were going to get a German versus Australia type of victory, but England then reminded a little of what I saw from Wolves a couple of years back – taking the lead but retreating into their shell. That was a classic sign of the first game tensions.

But I still thought it was a decent performance and one that people a seeing differently now that a few other of the top teams have struggled to deal with stubborn opposition.

Robert Green? I think Capello has got to stick with him. They never give forwards the amount of stick a goalkeeper gets for missing chances, but it should be over and done with now.

In all my time as a player, I only ever found myself apologising to my team-mates once. I remember it was a game against Oldham where I got myself sent off with a badly-timed tackle.

It wasn’t so much the affect on that game – for the life of me I’m not sure how it turned out – but it was fact that I was going to be suspended for the next three.

I felt rotten and said a big ‘sorry’ to the lads when they came in. That was accepted and never mentioned again. Green has done the same and now it will be the same. It was a bad error, a freakish one.

But you have to take it on the chin and move on. A second major error in this next game is a different story but for now, I think Capello must go with him.

I don’t know if there will be too many changes, in fact. I’m not the biggest fan in the world of Emile Heskey but I’ve got to say he came up with a very good all-round game last weekend, holding the ball up and bringing other players in. He worked really hard as well.

But I still think we get the best out of Wayne Rooney in a 4-5-1 line-up – or any variations on that theme – which at the same time gives the most obvious midfield players who would break forward to support him, Frank Lampard and Steven Gerrard, the chance to use their strengths.

I see Gareth Barry is now fit and Capello has already stated he will play him – I hope that doesn’t mean using Gerrard on the left but we shall see.

I think it’s important to seize control of this group, because it looks as if the Germans are going to finish top of their’s and it would be no bad thing to miss them in the Round of 16 match.

I was impressed with the Germans, their running off the ball, particularly, was superb – and as an Englishman it’s not easy to admit that.

But otherwise it has been a start dominated by caution – and those ruddy vuvuzelas. They are doing my head in, I must admit.

I can guarantee the one person we will not see at the World Cup is the bloke who came up with them. He’s got to be sitting on his luxury yacht in the Caribbean counting his pile, because it sounds as if every other person in South Africa has got one.

I hear they are coming to this country now. Please God somebody stop them before it is too late – the thought of watching our Premier League games with that noise going on all the time next season is terrible.

I’m an old-fashioned guy when it comes to my football. I love to hear the ‘ooohs’ and ‘aahhs’ of the fans as they go with the game not to mention the songs – good or bad.

That’s what makes our game so unique and I can’t believe these vuvuzelas are going to be anything more than a passing fad.

I hope not anyway.