Rooney gets England over the line

England got the result and the quarter-final tie they wanted, with the returning Wayne Rooney heading the only goal of the game in the 48th minute.

But the Ukrainians will feel mightily hard done by as they crashed out of the tournament, having played England off the park for 45 minutes and then having a perfectly good goal ruled out incorrectly.

A draw would not have been enough to keep them in the competition, but you had to feel for the host country. When John Terry hooked a shot from Marko Devic off the line in the 62nd minute, it was clearly over the line but the referee’s assistant, positioned barely five yards away on the goalline, did not give it and Michel Platini’s plans to resist goalline technology took another body blow.