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#OnThisDay: 10th October 2009

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In the coming week, England face their last two World Cup Qualifiers for Brazil 2014. They host Montenegro on Friday and then Poland on Tuesday. 

On this day in 2009, England travelled to Dnipropetrovsk to face Ukraine - they lost the game 1-0. Rob Green was sent off inside 15 minutes after a mistake from Rio Ferdinand. As expected, England fans rung in their droves to complain about the performance and Rio Ferdinand came under a lot of criticism. Jonathan opened up the show and questioned Rio's concentration levels when playing for his country - "he looses concentration - what else has he got to concentrate on!?" Is the criticism too harsh?

We also thought it was interesting to look at the starting eleven from that game, four years ago:

Rob Green

Glen Johnson

John Terry

Rio Ferdinand

Ashley Cole

Aaron Lennon

Michael Carrick

Frank Lampard

Steven Gerrard

Wayne Rooney

Emile Heskey

Is this team better than the one England have today?

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