JAMES LAWTON says that victory in Basle is heartwarming but scarcely a reason for celebration

Everything was fine again, so fine indeed that if two of England’s more notable players of the past, John Barnes and Michael Owen, hadn’t come along in that foreign football language known in some quarters as reality there was almost a case for dancing in the streets.
Well, at the very least you might have thought the national team had done something more than beat Switzerland 2-0 in the opening game of European Championship qualification which really should have been entitled not...