Montenegro 1 England 1

ENGLAND left Wembley with the jeers of their own fans ringing in their ears as they failed to score at the rebuilt stadium for the first time and had their 11-match winning streak on home soil ended by Montenegro.

Shay Given and Kevin Kilbane have each been handed their 100th senior international caps as the Republic of Ireland bring their World Cup Group Eight qualifying campaign to a close against Montenegro tonight.

AS IF the result in Dublin wasn’t enough of a bubble-burster, Italy had to go and canter to the most straightforward of wins on what was supposed to be a potentially tricky, if short, hop across the Adriatic Sea.