Wembley Stadium Thursday, September 10th, 2009   World Cup Qualifier Attendance: 87,319       England 5-1 Croatia
2009 /10

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The World Cup Qualifier at Wembley !! A win will take England to the world cup finals in South Africa in 2010. The job almost looks done as England require one win from there remaining games to qualify and also have lowly Belarus at home !! Chris, Daisy, Joe, Dom and Stu go to this one. Its Chris's first England game in 5 years, Daisy's 1st and Joe's in almost a year (not sure on Dom and Stu). Chris and Joe finish work at 12, the lads quickly get changed and meet Daisy at New Street and catch the 12:30 train to London Euston. A quiet journey takes place, Joe catches up on the events off World War 2, Daisy reads her showbiz mag and Chris is bored until Daisy eventually plays cards and suffers a £2 defeat to the blackjack master !! A text from Domino on the way alerts the group that there was a problem with his originally train and will be on a virgin train so will be there quicker !! The group arrive and head to a pub Chris and Jimmy found in July called the rocket, the service is about as fast as Emile Heskey so the group decide so find somewhere else. They stumble upon a oneills and pop in for a spot off lunch, a couple off pints and Dom and Stu arrive. The group begin drinking and having lots off fun with lots off pictures being taken and Dom and Stu confessing to having a elderly gentleman recently believing they where fudge packers in Hennessy's. Eventually as 6:30 arrives the group relise they need to go !! The group head to Kings Cross and get on the tube. A great atmosphere takes place on the tube with loads off England fans singing there little hearts out and having a party atmosphere !! The group arrive and walk up to Wembley enjoying the views and taking in the sites. Chris spends big purchasing his £6 programme...........probably the first programme he has brought in 7 seven years !! Dom and Stu head to there seats and are lucky enough to get the escalators to the top. Christopher, Joseph and Daisy are not so lucky and have to do the work to there seats which seems to take forever. They reach there seats, a quick hello to Crock and the game begins. England dominate from the start and are in front just 7 minutes in, Aaron Lennon has a mazy run and is brought tumbling down in the box and Frank Lampard steps up to put England in front. A great start and just over 10 minutes later the lead is doubled, Lennon again the provider with a excellent cross and Steven Gerrard heads home at the back post to make it 2-0 !! England continue to dominate the 1st half and Emile Heskey wastes two or three great chance to extend the lead the donkey !! 2-0 at the break and the England players are cheered off to a standing ovation !! Domino pops over after half time, the young lad confesses to being hungary but after reading the food prices, opts to wait until after the game (I think everyone else was also hungary but deciding waiting was the better option). A quick chat and Dom heads back to Stu. The second half begins and England pick up from where they left off. Good work down the right again from Lennon and Johnson leads to a Johnson cross and Lampard heads home his second 3-0 !! David Beckham soon begins to warm up and Daisy nags Chris to try and get a photo but unfortuanately for the young love struck girl his phone can not zoom that far in. Back to the footbal and England continue to press in a completely one sided game. With 17 minutes left a clever Wayne Rooney cross and a excellent looping Steven Gerrard header makes it 4-0 !! England are running riot against the second best team in the group. A team that elimated them from qualifying for Euro 2008 just 2 years ago, terrible England manager then though, not gonna mnetion his name the ginger t**t !! Croatia pull one back, a good double save from Robert Green see's Edwardo the Arsenal cheat eventually convert, 4-1 !! Its England who have the last laugh though as a bad kick out from there goalkeeper fa