On this day: England go out at Euro 2000

In fact, this tournament is one where they have struggled in the past, advancing out of the group stages only twice from 1964 to 1996,

A semi-final run at Euro 96 - which was staged in England - stands alongside third place in 1968 their best exploits, although they reached the quarters in 2004 and 2012.

They didn't qualify in 2008, so their last round one exit remains on 20 June 2000. Much like today, hopes were high on that occasion that elimination wouldn't be the case.

Roy Hodgson's Three Lions only need a point to win Group B at Euro 2016 in France this evening and opponents Slovakia have lost all three previous meetings against them.

There's an outside chance they might go out, but that would be a collapse of epic proportions. The odds are they'll be table-toppers and play again at 5pm on Saturday.

Back at Euro 2000 - at an event co-hosted by Belgium and Holland - Kevin Keegan's England looked to have saved themselves going into play.

Spirits had been raised with a 1-0 win over Germany in their second Group A game, thanks to Alan Shearer's 53rd minute winner.

They had truly shot themselves in the foot during their opener against Portugal, after racing into a 2-0 lead inside 18 minutes through goals from Paul Scholes and Steve McManaman.

Back came Portugal to somehow win and take maximum points through strikes from Luis Figo, Joao Pinto and Nuno Gomes. It left them with work to do against Romania.

Like today, they only needed a draw to advance going into proceedings, where they played before a crowd of 30,000 at the Stade du Pays de Charleroi.

But it was Romania took the lead with a 22nd-minute goal from defender Cristian Chivu, whose attempted cross instead found the top corner of the net past goalkeeper Nigel Martyn.

England scored twice before the break to come from behind and lead, Chivu turning villain with a foul on Paul Ince with referee Urs Meier pointing to the spot.

Shearer did the honours from the spot to restore parity in the 41st minute, before Michael Owen found the net four minutes later to make Keegan's half-time team talk a bit easier.

Whatever was said didn't seem to register as Dorinal Munteanu equalised for Romania three minutes after the restart, with England then trying to shut up shop.

They appeared content to record a draw and it ended up back-firing, a killer blow coming in the 89th minute with Phil Neville taking pretty much all of the blame.

Viorel Moldovan charged into the England box and was brought down by the left-back, with Meier again showing no hesitation in awarding the penalty.

Up stepped substitute Ioan Ganea to convert it with ease, with Romania holding on to get the win and take second place. All of a sudden, England were going home.