After a crazy transfer-deadline-day-induced week of domestic football, it's time to turn our attention to World Cup qualification.

"The honeymoon is over" has been a tag-line for every newspaper and sports website when discussing Fabio Capello's England, I don't want to use it myself, but let's face it, it is, well and truly over. Five games into Fabio's reign as England manager and we are no wiser where we are headed. More questions than answers have followed every game of the Italian's tenure so far.

Andorra tonight is three points in the bag. There are no easy games in international football? Yes, there are and this is one of them. Then on to the big one - Croatia away. Defeat in Zagreb will not end all hopes of qualification but could leave squad morale at an all-time low and the England faithful finally turning their backs on our hugely under-achieving national team.

Make no bones about it, the Croats are technically far superior to us. Our disastrous World Cup qualifying campaign can testify to that. England are going to Zagreb as underdogs, hopefully this will inspire them and give the fans the performance they have been crying out for.

Underdogs or not, Capello must be going into this double header with a four-point absolute minimum return as his target. Time to back up his claims that his squad have the capabilities to be as good as the Spanish. It's easy to say - it's time to do your talking on the pitch.

Capello was brought in to stamp his discipline on the team, to make it clear that each player must earn his right to wear the shirt. Quite rightly so, however, Michael Owen (89 caps, 40 goals) has earned his right, that when fit he plays. If you look at the strikers selected it is a head-scratcher. I applaud the inclusion of Jimmy Bullard, but the exclusion of Newcastle's Owen is reminiscent of Steve McClaren's attempted justification of "I'm the boss" when he dropped David Beckham. The exclusion of Owen could well haunt Capello for many weeks to come.