England crashed out of Euro 2008

England failed to qualify for Euro 2008 after a sorrowful 3-2 defeat to Croatia at Wembley.

Stunned. Devastated. Humilated. As an England supporter, you can probably use all the negative words you know to describe your feeling of England's astonishing defeat to Croatia at Wembley.

Outplayed, outclassed and even outfought. Though England once came back from two goals down, courtesy of a soft penalty, they deserved nothing from the game. The absence of all four regular defenders and both main strikers might be a big loss, but never an excuse.

Disastrous performance

Steve McClaren seriously underestimated the ability and determination of this Croatian team. It's definitely not a good idea to giving a young keeper his competitive debut in such an important game.

It was Scott Carson's horrible mistake that put England in trouble, but the performance of his teammates weren't much better either. Usually there may be one or two players having a bad game, but unfortunately for England, only Peter Crouch was on normal service.

England should've never dragged themselves into this make-or-break situation. A month ago, I was at Wembley Park before England v. Estonia match(WATCH THE VIDEO). After two convincing victories, England supporters were in completely different mood. They certainly didn't expect that England would end the qualifiers with two successive defeats.

Time for a change

Last week, former England and Manchester United full-back Paul Parker declared that it would be better if England do not qualify for Euro 2008. He'd rather see a failure as the wake-up call to English football, so that young local players can get more opportunities to come through the rank.

England's next major tournament, World Cup 2010 qualifying draw set to take place on Friday. Now, it's time for a change.