Hair we go: England celebrate Cahill's early strike

It makes that slight concern over a foot injury all the more of a worry ahead of Tuesday’s game against Wales when it has been a year — and five matches — since  England last won at Wembley.

After a slow start here at the Vasil Levski Stadium on a slow, slow pitch boasting a light covering of flowers and clover — all very pretty but not exactly conducive to fast,  fluent football — England dismantled their hosts with an impressive display of confident, clinical attacking that propelled them clear at the top of their qualifying group thanks to Montenegro’s defeat in Cardiff.

They were three up by half-time, Gary Cahill marking his fourth cap with his first goal before Rooney used the now well-covered head to score one and his left foot to score another seconds before the interval.

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