In the year ending December 2010, the provisionalfigure for average vehicle delay on the slowest 10% of journeys was 3.55 minutes per 10 miles, a fall of 9% since March 2008.
More problems meant Brown did not figure in Capello's 30-man provisional squad or the final 23, the right-back role going to Glen Johnson, and Liverpool's Jamie Carragher controversially persuaded out of international retirement as back-up.