Former England striker Trevor Brooking says Kevin Keegan faces a tough task reforming his side from one which produced one of the worst performances in living memory to championship contenders.

England’s performance at Wembley was one of the poorest I can remember.

I’d even go so far as to say that over the two legs Scotland were the better team.

But if you are looking at who might do better at Euro 2000 you’ve got to say it would be England.

Not in their current shape, though. Playing like this they will get beaten by most teams.

Kevin Keegan has been in an awkward position in that he came into the job in the middle of the qualification campaign and had no time to experiment.

Now he has six months to sort things out.

is a big test for him. He has got the motivational skills but he faces some tough tactical decisions.

He needs to find a formula to get the best out of his young talent. At the moment you are looking a group of individuals who are not playing as a team.

Keegan’s number one priority is to decide on a system that suits his players.

If he is going to persist playing 4-4-2 he needs at least two left-sided players. At the moment England are having problems finding just one.

It’s not a question of picking your best players and then swapping round systems to suit them. England won the World Cup in 1966 by picking a system, actually one without wingers, and sticking to it.

That might mean picking one or two players who on paper are not as talented as others.

Craig Brown made two changes to his side for the second leg – he brought in Neil McCann and Callum Davidson.

Both are natually left footed but neither are first choices for their clubs.

They may not be as talented as one or two others but they gave Scotland great width and shape.

With Graeme Le Saux injured, the only two left-sided players Keegan had were Steve Guppy and Steve Froggatt and I would have certainly played one of them at Wembley.

French actress Eva Green, who played love interest Vesper Lynd in Casino Royale, won the Orange rising star award voted for by the British public.

“It’s a real honour because I’m French and it’s an English award. I have just moved here and have had the most amazing welcome,” she said.

Whitaker, who has also won Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards for The Last King of Scotland, said: “This means a lot because to be embraced by another shore is a special thing.

I try to think of myself as a citizen of the planet,” he added.

Greengrass’s United 93 depicts one of the 11 September 2001 plane hijackings.

Accepting his award, the film-maker said: “I firmly believe that cinema must deal with the way the world is and the dangers there are. We need it very much now.”

The Spanish-language dark fairytale Pan’s Labyrinth won three Baftas including the award for best foreign language film.

Former US reality TV show contestant Jennifer Hudson added the best supporting actress prize to her considerable collection for her performance in the musical Dreamgirls.

Peter Morgan and Jeremy Brock’s script for The Last King of Scotland won the best adapted screenplay honour.

The award for special achievement by a British director in their first feature film went to Andrea Arnold for the Glasgow-set drama Red Road.

The best animated feature film Bafta was awarded to Happy Feet.

The Item Club is the latest commentator to argue that recent upturn in prices reflects an unusual position in the market that is unlikely to last.
It pointed out that many homeowners are either trapped in negative equity or reluctant to sell for fear of having to absorb the losses of the past two years.
The sharp downturn in prices that started in 2007 seems to have come to an end this year, though whether or not prices are actually rising again is a matter of debate.
The Nationwide building society has said that UK house prices are £7,000 higher than the start of the year, while its big rival lender the Halifax says prices are in fact roughly the same.
The Item Club argued that as 56% of homeowners have a mortgage, any sustained recovery would have to be underpinned by a recovery in mortgage lending.
However, as the CML acknowledges, banks are still rationing the amount of money they are lending.

Earlier this week, the governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, said there were signs that the UK economy was growing again.
But he added that the “strength and sustainability” of the recovery were still “highly uncertain”, saying the state of the banking system, levels of debt, and the global economy were all drags on growth.
Unemployment is still likely to reach three million in 2010, and could go higher, said economist Howard Archer of IHS Global Insight.
“Unemployment is a lagging indicator and the sharp overall economic contraction suffered between the second quarter of 2008 and the second quarter of 2009 will continue to weigh down on the labour market for an extended period,” he said

The world’s tallest man – who also has the largest hands and feet – has been revealed by Guinness World Records for the first time.
At 8ft 1in (2.47m), Sultan Kosen, from Turkey, is about 4in (10cm) taller than previous title-holder Bao Xishun.
The 27-year-old’s hands measure 10.8in (27.5cm) and his feet 14.3in (36.5cm).
At the launch in London of the 2010 edition of the book, Mr Kosen said he was hoping his new-found fame would bring him love for the first time.
“The first thing I want to do is have a car that I can fit in, but more than that I want to get married,” he said.
“Up until now it’s been really difficult to find a girlfriend. I’ve never had one, they were usually scared of me. I’m hoping now I will find one.”
He went on: “Hopefully now that I’m famous I’ll be able to meet lots of girls. I’d like to get married.”
He also had to have a three-metre-long bed made.
Mr Kosen said: “The most difficult things are, for example, that I can’t fit into a normal car. When I get into a car, it’s a really tight fit.
“I can’t go shopping like normal people, I have to have things made specially and sometimes they aren’t always as fashionable.
“The other thing is that ceilings are low and I have to bend down through doorways.”
But his height does have its upsides.
He said: “The good thing about being so tall is that I can see people from a long distance. The other thing is at home they use my height to change the light bulbs and hang the curtains, things like that.”

While that view is more or less shared by all three of Canada’s three federal opposition parties, and human rights groups such as Amnesty International, public opinion is sharply divided with strong views on either side of the debate. Media websites have been inundated with responses.
“I see Khadr crying and whining about his physical state,” says one of 600 e-mails received by Canada’s public broadcaster, the CBC. “Let’s not forget he has been accused of killing an American soldier. So truthfully, I don’t feel sorry for him.”
Says another: “Whatever his crime… he was a child when he was sent to Afghanistan to fight and at that young age could not have possibly understood the implications of what he was doing. He has suffered enough.”
Some members of the Khadr family have gained a reputation in Canadian media interviews as al-Qaeda sympathisers.
The late family patriarch, Ahmed Said Khadr, was an associate of al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden and the family spent time living in some of his compounds. Several family members now reside in Toronto.
They did not grant any broadcast interviews but did speak to the Canadian Press news agency.
Omar Khadr’s sister, Zaynab Khadr, said that she was not optimistic his situation would improve in the near future

Mr Obama’s keynote speech was followed by remarks of a very different tone by Mr Cheney.
Mr Cheney, who has emerged as a strong critic of the Obama White House, addressed a Washington think-tank to lay out the “strategic thinking” behind the Bush administration’s actions.
He began by saying that Mr Obama deserved cross-party support for wise decisions, but added that: “When he mischaracterises the decisions we made, he deserves an answer.”
Mr Cheney recalled the dangerous hours on 11 September 2001 as he was shepherded to a White House bunker as hijacked airliners hit New York and the Pentagon.
He said the experience deeply affected him, and said the Bush administration’s policies were dedicated to making sure no attacks of that kind could ever happen again.
Mr Cheney dismissed the “theory” that the use of waterboarding on terror suspects acted as a recruitment tool for those intent on attacking the US.
And he criticised attempts to change Bush-era terminology: even if the phrase “enemy combatants” was not used, Mr Cheney said, “the same assortment of killers and would-be mass murderers are still there”.
“Finding some less judgemental or more pleasant-sounding name doesn’t change what they are or what they would do

Dr Trevor Jones, director general of the ABPI said: “Alzheimer’s is a cruel and irreversible condition, not only for those who develop it, but for their family, friendly and carers.
“Medical science has made great strides in unravelling the mysteries of the brain and research into Alzheimer’s has been particularly rapid.
“The development of new medicines is not only giving hope to those at risk from the disease but also offers the prospect of great financial savings for the country.”
Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive, degenerative and irreversible brain disorder that causes intellectual impairment, disorientation and eventually death.
It is one of a group of illnesses called dementia.
The Alzheimer’s Society estimates dementia affects around 700,000 people in the UK.

The US team looked at mice with a particular genetic mutation which made it inevitable they would develop amyloid plaques – although to different degrees.
Instead of simply measuring blood amyloid levels, the researchers first injected their mice with a chemical called m266 – which appears to be able to “draw out” amyloid protein from the brain and surrounding areas.
Afterwards, within a few minutes, blood levels of the protein appeared to correlate accurately to the level of plaques formed in the brains of the mice.
Associate Professor David Holtzman, one of the research team, said: “This has obvious implications for developing a similar blood test for brain amyloid load in humans.
“Though we will not be able to detect risk in someone who has not begun to accumulate amyloid, we hope to predict the disease well before the symptoms appear.
“Such a test could distinguish individuals suffering from dementia caused by Alzheimer’s from those with other types of dementia, and may help us evaluate an individual’s response to particular medical therapies

Many patients with dementia waited for three years before their carer reported early symptoms to their doctor.
Experts say this delay could deny patients the chance of treatment – or to prepare for the onset of the progressive disease.
In addition, the survey, carried out by the Alzheimer’s Society, revealed that the majority of GPs did not feel confident about either giving a diagnosis of dementia – or giving information about it to relatives.
Early Alzheimer’s symptoms include memory problems, disorientation and confusion.
However, more than half of all current carers waited years before getting a medical opinion.
Professor Murna Downs, from the University of Bradford, who led the research, said: “Three years is far too long for someone to wait.
“We need to let people know that there are many new services and drug treatments for people with dementia.”
There are drug treatments for dementia – but the earlier they are given, the more benefit there is for the patient