Neil Ashton picks up the baton from his sub-editor to write: 'Roy Hodgson issued an astonishing defence of his misfiring England team, claiming they failed to beat their main World Cup rivals because they are 'not robots.We could go on. There's plenty of it around in the other papers, so in some ways we should apologise for just picking on The Mail (we won't though, because we're just not sorry).Right. Yes. Well...they aren't robots. Hodgson's point was that these are fallible human beings, and occasionally they lose. Not this time, we should remind Ashton and all other newspapermen and newspaperwomen, because this time they drew. That's drew. That's the result slightly better than losing but slightly worse than winning.Of course, England have problems. Of course, they might have to go through the - SHOCK, HORROR - playoffs. Hell, they might even not qualify.It isn't really, because firstly if England win all their games they absolutely, definitely will finish top of the group. Secondly Hodgson's men are, frankly, a sh*te sight better than QPR (to use crude logic, if you extrapolated England's form over the 30 games QPR have played, they'd have 60 points). Thirdly England must play Ukraine, Montenegro, Poland and Moldova (the latter three at home), whereas QPR's last three league games are against Arsenal, Newcastle and Liverpool.
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