Czech striker Pavlina Scasna was missing with a knee injury, but her replacement Doskova almost made an immediate impression, however, forcing Chamberlain into a sixth-minute block from a 12-yard shot.

BBC: England 0-0 Czech Republic

Moreover, these polls were taken before reports from Kosovo spread the impression that the bombing had intensified the very Serbian onslaught on the Kosovars that it was intended to block (just as many, mainly Tory, backbenchers predicted it would).

ECONOMIST: Boxing for Britain