Rooney Backed To Score Next England Goal - Eventually

With England scoring just one goal in their last four games, William Hill have opened a book on when they will get the next one and on who will score it.

William Hill offer 6/5 that the next goal comes in the first half of the game against Israel, 9/4 in the second half of the Israel game, 5/2 that it does not arrive until the first half against Andorra, 14/1 the second half against Andorra and 100/1 that they fail to score in either the Israel or Andorra games.

And Wayne Rooney has been backed from 11/4 to 9/4 favourite to be the next player on target for England and the bookies also offer 7/2 Crouch; 4/1 Lampard; 9/2 Gerrard; 8/1 Defoe; 9/1 Lennon; Terry; 12/1 Wright-Phillips; 14/1 Dyer; 16/1 Carrick; 20/1 Owen.

William Hill make England 4/11 to score against Israel (2/1 not to) and 4/5 to win the game, with the home side 3/1 and a draw 21/10.

Debut keeper Ben Foster is 11/4 to keep his place in the starting line-up against Israel, but 1/ 4 not to. Crouch is 1/ 4 to start in that game, 11/4 not to. Wright-Phillips 6/4 to start and 1/2 not to. Woodgate 2/1 to start, 4/11 not to and Defoe 3/1 to start, 2/9 not to.

William Hill make Steve McClaren 2/1 to be out of the England job before the Euro 2008 Finals get underway - with Stuart Pearce 7/2 favourite to succeed him.

England are now 7/4 to fail to qualify for the Euro Finals and 2/5 to make it. They are 6/4 with William Hill to win their Group for which Croatia are Even money favourites, with Russia 9/2; Israel 20/1 and Macedonia 250/1.

Germany are 6/1 favourites to win Euro 2008 with William Hill who also offer 13/2 Italy 7/1 England; France; Holland; 9/1 Spain; 14/1 Portugal; 16/1 Switzerland; 20 Croatia; Czech Republic.

"It seems crazy that England are two points shorter than Spain, and thirteen shorter than Croatia, who are favourites to win their Group, but even though our current biggest bet for England is two hundred quid, should England somehow stumble to the finals it is an absolute certainty that we will end up with a massive liability for them to win the competition. So, I suppose the best advice to patriotic punters is to take the value in opposing England - not that I expect they'll listen, and should England beat Israel everyone will probably believe them to be world-beaters!" said William Hill's spokesman Graham Sharpe.