I really felt for Wayne Rooney when he was booed by sections of the English fans at Wembley.

It is not nice when the away fans give you abuse, but believe you me when you start getting stick from your own supporters it's ten times as bad.

Like many others I do not believe Wayne warrants a place in the starting line-up, as his performances have dipped dramatically for club and country over the last couple of years.

Wayne has been a magnificent servant to the England squad for 13 years and deserves better.

He's the country's top scorer with 53 goals in 118 appearances and, let's be honest, he's hardly ever pulled out of the squad unless he's had a valid reason for doing so, unlike quite a few other English players.

He knows his form hasn't been good but he doesn't pick the team and if a manager picks you to play, what are you meant to do, tell him you don't think you should be starting?

It's happened to me a few times in my career when I probably shouldn't have started games as I had not been playing well and others deserved a chance to show what they were capable of, but the managers picked me for one reason or another and I simply had to go out there and do my best for the team, no matter what the fans thought and no matter how much stick I took.

Gareth Southgate took charge for his first couple of games and even though England claimed four points and sit top of their group they were hardly convincing against Malta and Slovenia, in fact they could have lost against Slovenia if it wasn't for a rejuvenated Joe Hart who made some excellent saves and looks to have regained his confidence after his loan move to Torino.

Southgate has four games to prove to the English FA that he's the man to take England forward and improve their shocking performances in their last couple of tournaments, where they have failed miserably.

I think he'll be very lucky indeed if he is to get one of the biggest jobs in football as he hasn't really done much as a manager.

Middlesbrough were relegated to the Championship with him at the reins in 2009 and he had to wait until 2013 to manage again, this time with the England U21 side. It says a lot to me in all that time Gareth hasn't been linked with one job in the Premier League, nor has he been linked with any managerial position that's come up in the Championship and, let's be honest, there's been some big ones in the last two to three years.

In terms of the home nations it's been a mixed bag of results over the past ten days and one thing is for sure Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have a lot to do if they are to reach the World Cup in Russia in 2018 after these last round of international fixtures.

Out of the six games played by all three only Northern Ireland won a game, when they beat San Marino 4-0.

Kyle Lafferty bagged a brace too and he now just needs 17 more to equal their top scorer another former Canary David Healy. His international goals tally is a very respectable 19 goals in 53 appearances for his country.