The most impressive performances for the Three Lions against San Marino were from their younger stars, from Jonjo Shelvey to Luke Shaw, but will they change Roy Hodgson's thinking?
It was scarcely the perfect way to equal a record that has stood for almost half a century. Sir Bobby Charlton belatedly got company at the top of the leader board of England'’s all-time scorers when referee Leontios Trattou decided that it was not enough of an opportunity for Wayne Rooney to face officially the 192nd best team in international football and a country, in San Marino, with only one win in its entire history.