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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.

Almost three out of four UK households now watch digital television, according to media watchdog Ofcom.
Quarterly figures show that 73.3% of households watch digital services on their main TV set, a rise by around 800,000 over the last three months.
Around 18.5 million have digital TV installed, with increasing numbers watching on second or third sets.
The figures also show that 9.3 million households now have digital terrestrial television, such as Freeview.
More households (7 million) watch digital terrestrial TV than traditional analogue TV (6.4 million) on their main set, according to Ofcom’s report.
Between late 2007 and 2012, the analogue TV signal will be switched off in the UK. Aled Jones – Higher, Amici Forever – The Opera Band, Bryn Terfel – Bryn, Denise Leigh/Jane Gilchrist – Operatunity, Dominic Miller – Shapes, Hayley Westenra – Pure, Lesley Garrett – So Deep Is The Night, Luciano Pavarotti – Ti Adoro, Ludovico Einaudi – Echoes ¬ The Collection, Myleene Klass – Moving On

Bryn Terfel’s popular Faenol music festival is going back in time this weekend.
One of the highlights of this year’s show, held near Caernarfon, north Wales, is a revival of a 1970s Welsh rock opera with the original cast.
And opera star Terfel is encouraging festival-goers to turn up in full 1970s gear for Nia Ben Aur, which was first performed 30 years ago.
“I’d even like people to dress up in 70s clothing!” said Terfel.
Jazz performers Jamie Cullum and Jools Holland were the other big attractions of the weekend.
Holland and best-selling singer and pianist Cullum headlined on the Saturday night, with more than 8,000 tickets sold already.
“Jamie Cullum is having a wonderful time, with his album going double platinum before Christmas,” said Terfel.
I met him before the Proms in London and hinted that I’d like him at my festival.
“And it’s come true, which isn’t easy because he’s very busy and this will be his 10th successive concert.”
“This year, we’ve veered off the road,” he added of the jazz theme, alongside the classical and Welsh rock line-up.
“I have to bring something new every year, hence we’re having a big band, jazz and blues evening.”
The Gala Opera Night on Sunday will again feature more young talent, with tenor Joseph Calleja appearing with Terfel, as well as 17-year-old violinist Chloe Hanslip.
Bass baritone Terfel said that for the fifth year of the festival on the Faenol estate he has responded to requests to bring in giant screens to show performers close-up.
“It’s wonderful to wear an entrepreneur’s hat for a change – it’s something different from what I do for the rest of the year.
“It’s something I wanted to do for the location – and the artists that have come here have enjoyed it and return for holidays.”

Mr Griffin accused the protesters of “attacking the rights of millions of people to listen to what I’ve got to say and listen to me being called to account by other politicians”.
But Weyman Bennett from Unite Against Fascism accused the BBC of “rolling out the red carpet” to Mr Griffin and said his appearance on the flagship discussion programme “will lead to the growth of a fascist party” and promote violence against ethnic minorities.
About 25 people managed to get through the gates and run towards the BBC building when security guards opened them to let in a car. A few minutes later they were led, dragged or carried back outside.
There were also protests outside BBC buildings in Bristol, Liverpool, Nottingham, Glasgow and Belfast.
Earlier on Thursday, BBC director general Mark Thompson said it was up to the government to ban the BNP from the airwaves if it felt Mr Griffin should not be allowed to take part in Question Time.
Welsh Secretary Peter Hain, who had tried to stop the broadcast, said: “The BBC should be ashamed of single-handedly doing a racist, fascist party the biggest favour in its grubby history.”
But Prime Minister Gordon Brown said it was a matter for the corporation and he did not want to interfere with it, while Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw said that most of the cabinet did not share Mr Hain’s view.
BBC Deputy Director General Mark Byford said it had been “appropriate” to invite Mr Griffin to appear given the support the BNP received in the last European elections when it gained its first Euro MPs.
He said: “He was scrutinised and challenged along with the other panellists heavily by the audience, that was right in our view.
“It would have been quite wrong for the BBC to have said ‘yes, you are allowed to stand in elections, yes you have a level of support that now meets the threshold but the BBC doesn’t think that you should be on’.
“We have no views on the politics or the political leaders what we do hold absolutely dear is that due impartiality is a value we uphold and that’s why Mr Griffin was on tonight.”

But his references to Britain’s “indigenous people” prompted other members of the panel to challenge him to say he meant white people.
Mr Griffin said the colour was “irrelevant” and said Mr Straw would not dare go to New Zealand and tell a Maori he was not “indigenous”. “We are the aborigines here,” he claimed.
But he was accused of making up facts. He was also challenged by several black and Asian members of the audience.
One man asked Mr Griffin: “Where do you want me to go? I love this country, I’m part of this country.”
Following the programme, Mr Griffin told BBC News too much of the programme had been a a beat up Nick Griffin programme instead of Question Time”.
He added that of the 25 or so allegations made against him in the programme – he was only allowed to answer four or five of them and that was “grossly unfair”.
While the programme was being recorded the anti-BNP protest continued, with the whole west London BBC building “locked down” for more than an hour and the road outside closed.
The Metropolitan Police say six protesters were arrested and three police officers injured in the protests.

The spacecraft Nasa is developing to replace the shuttle has passed a critical milestone.
The Orion capsule, which is intended to carry at least four astronauts into Earth orbit and beyond, has completed its preliminary design review, or PDR.
The review is an essential engineering assessment that certifies the concept is fit for purpose.
The completion of the PDR paves the way for the US space agency to start to build the capsule for flight.
“This is the successful culmination of all of the design trade studies and activities to date,” said Mark Geyer, manager of the Orion Project Office at Nasa’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
“As a project, a programme and an agency, we are reviewing the design maturity, strategy and plans for Nasa’s next human spacecraft and agreeing that this is the architecture we are going to build.”
The US space agency is scheduled to retire its space shuttles next year, and has begun the development of a new human space launch “architecture” called Constellation.
The architecture calls for two new rockets: the Ares 1 to launch crew, and a new heavy-lift rocket known as Ares 5 that could put into orbit the equipment needed by an Orion capsule to travel to the Moon and beyond.
However, all the systems are under review by a top-level panel led by former Lockheed Martin chairman and chief executive Norm Augustine. President Barack Obama has asked the panel to assess different options for getting US astronauts into space.
Some commentators expect the Ares development plans to be modified or even cancelled.
Orion is scheduled to enter service no earlier than March 2015.

International human rights groups have long called for a uniform and global legal system for dealing with war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Apart from the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, established in May 1993, an international tribunal was established in Arusha, Tanzania, for cases resulting from the atrocities carried out in Rwanda in 1994.
Another is trying former Liberian President Charles Taylor over war crimes committed during the civil war in neighbouring Sierra Leone.
Although these represent significant further steps in bringing those accused of war crimes to justice, they are, like Nuremberg and Tokyo, committed to dealing with war crimes in specific conflicts.
In July 2008, Surinam became the 107th country to join the International Criminal Court, set up in 2002 as a permanent tribunal to prosecute individuals for crimes against humanity.
The United States has refused to sign the treaty, arguing the court could be used to pursue politically motivated prosecutions. Other major powers including Russia, China and India have also refused.
The question of whether international courts of this kind are political – as defendants like Slobodan Milosevic argued – hangs over all international legal institutions.
In a sense it is true that the tribunals are political since the international political will to establish and fund them has to exist before they can get to work.
Critics of international courts often argue that international justice can only be truly legitimate when all war crimes, committed by any county, come under the jurisdiction of a single international court.

As long as Americans are buying, Mexican drug cartels will continue to sell.
Up the road, at the El Paso field office of the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), they have been burning marijuana in a special incinerator.
Nearby, two undercover agents are packing up more than 30kg of cocaine, seized in a raid just two days earlier. It’s being sent off for analysis.
In the warehouse next door, Special Agent Joseph M Arabit shows off several tons of seized drugs.
Plenty of narcotics though are still getting through.
The FBI estimates that between 40% and 60% of the drugs smuggled into the US come in via the Juarez-El Paso corridor. Other agencies dispute this figure, but it’s a clear indication of the scale of the problem.
“I think the long-term solution is going to have to be the elimination of the cartels themselves,” says FBI Special Agent David Cuthbertson.
“The Mexican government and our government, in co-operation, really need to remove the cartels at their roots, because they are multi-billion dollar criminal enterprises, who are very powerful. They are very violent and they are also very flexible.”
So far the US approach has been two-fold. Try and stop drugs getting in, and spend money on equipping and training the Mexican army to destroy the cartels.
The trafficking issue, however, is not a one-way street.
The Mexican government says the US authorities are failing to stop weapons and drug money from heading south across this border. Most of the weapons used by the drug cartels are easily bought in the US thanks to relaxed US gun laws.
“The Mexicans are justifiably worried and angry that weapons, very sophisticated weapons are being smuggled into Mexico from the United States and are being used by the drug cartels,” says Senator Joe Lieberman, chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security.
“It’s been a fact of life that except for occasional random inspections, the American border authorities do not make exit inspections of people and vehicles when leaving the country. That’s gotta stop.”
Still, others feel it’s not so simple.
“I think at the very least we need to have a national debate about the wisdom of the United States policy of prohibition,” says El Paso council member Beto O’Rourke.
“The US for decades has focused on the supply side of the problem, of getting into the business of how drugs are produced in Colombia, and Peru, and now Mexico.”
“It really has done nothing to limit the supply and the availability and desirability of drugs in the United States, and that’s what fuelling the violence that we see in Juarez. The US drug consumer’s money is what buys guns, buys the corruption of public officials, recruits new members to the cartels.”

US President Barack Obama has led international condemnation of Sunday’s double suicide bomb attack in Baghdad that killed at least 132 people.
Mr Obama branded the attacks – the worst in more than two years in Iraq – “hateful and destructive”.
UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband said they were a “terrible reminder of the threat from violent extremism”.
The blasts hit the ministry of justice and a provincial government office near the heavily fortified Green Zone.
than 520 people were also injured when the two car bombs exploded in quick succession at 1030 (0730 GMT) as people headed to work during the rush hour.
The White House said President Obama had spoken to Iraqi PM Nouri Maliki and President Jalal Talabani to pledge his support.
Mr Obama said in a statement: “I strongly condemn these outrageous attacks on the Iraqi people, and send my deepest condolences to those who have lost loved ones.
“These bombings serve no purpose other than the murder of innocent men, women and children, and they only reveal the hateful and destructive agenda of those who would deny the Iraqi people the future that they deserve.”
The International Zone, or Green Zone, is the administrative heart of the capital.
The Iraqi authorities said the suicide bombers drove their vehicles into parking bays and detonated them.
Traffic limits in the street were eased six months ago and blast walls repositioned as part of a programme which Mr Maliki said showed progress was being made against insurgents.
Dozens of the dead were said to be staff members of the ministry of justice and Baghdad provincial government.