ENGLAND face Montenegro tomorrow night and it will be a far tougher test than San Marino posed.
But, even so, a country like England should still sweep them aside in their World Cup qualifier.
But 8-0 against San Marino? It's a joke really that they are allowed to take part.
It is not a competitive game, it is just a waste of everybody's time.
San Marino should have to go through their own qualifying system with other minnows, then the winner gets the chance to compete in the usual qualifiers.
They are there simply as the whipping boys and for other countries to rattle up their goal tallies.
I mean, I bet Ilkeston, Eastwood and Carlton would give them a good game.
But while England were ensuring they did a professional job, Rio Ferdinand was doing some punditry in Qatar.
What lunacy.
After all the John Terry racism scandal involving his brother Anton Ferdinand and then the spat with England team-mate Ashley Cole, Ferdinand finally got the recall into the international set-up.
It was the one he had so craved, by all accounts.
Yet he gets into the squad, then withdraws because of a strict fitness programme and flies half the way around the world. Well that's not going to you any good.
Maybe playing two games in quick succession is not possible anymore but I doubt he would have played in San Marino. He would have been saved for tomorrow against Montenegro.
It is a disgrace and an insult to every England fan and although he has to keep his counsel, you can tell boss Roy Hodgson is livid.
And so he should be. What needs to be done now is make sure Ferdinand is never allowed to play for his country again.
This should spell the end of his international career.
