England were beaten 2-1 by a team with a population of 323,0023.

A disgrace, an embarrassment! Never in all my time following England have I ever felt so utterly let down by a team of vastly overpaid players and coaching staff!

To cap it all, poor transport arrangements at the stadium meant it took us two hours to travel the four miles back to our hotel!

I was really looking forward to this one as it was the first game my son Ben could attend after finishing his ‘A’ Levels.

We were based in Nice on the Cote D'Azur with clear blue skies and 27 degrees - a welcome relief from England’s grey skies and rain!

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We left Bristol airport Sunday afternoon and on landing at Nice airport we watched the second half of the France v Rep of Ireland game.

With Ireland 1-0 up at half-time we were wildly thinking about an England v Ireland quarter-final! Subsequent events proved that notion to be ludicrous fantasy!

To cap it all, poor transport arrangements at the stadium meant it took us tw2 hours to travel the 4 miles back to our hotel!

On the day of the game we met Ketts and his son Alexander, who we had met in Rio in June 2014. From here we took a tram back down to the Fanzone and had a few beers at the Irish bar Ma Nolan's, where many of the England fans were congregating.

We caught the shuttle bus to the ground - some fivemiles out of town. Again, poor arrangements with fans being dropped off 30 minutes walking distance from the stadium entrance.

Everyone arrived in positive, expectant spirits and with England scoring a penalty after three minutes, all was going to plan! How wrong we were about to be proved. I guess the writing was on the wall with Roy Hodgson selecting Raheem Sterling ahead of Adam Lallana for the starting left-midfield position.

Iceland equalised some five minutes later with the defence asleep as the opposition striker found himself free at the back post to slide home. Horror of horrors – five minutes later Joe Hart was again lacking as he failed to stop a tame shot from rolling over the line despite getting good hand on the ball.

England fans were still hopeful at the start of the second half until another tactical blunder from Roy, bringing on Jack Wilshire for Eric Dier in the holding central midfield position.

England sweated and toiled without any real threat on the Iceland goal. Hodgson continued to make tactical errors of judgement until the 85th minute when he brought on Marcus Rashford, who ran at the opposition right back, creating a real threat, but it was all too late.