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18 November 2004  
Michael Owen post-match 

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The England Head Coach said: “It was very bad to hear. When you hear people doing it at players because of the colour of their skin I am sorry to hear it.

“It is always bad and you always have to take distance from that. I'm sure The FA will continue to fight this. That's good - and it's very important for football, the world, for everything.”

As for the game, it is not one that England will want to remember for long as they lost 1-0 to a first half header from defender Del Horno.

Eriksson said: “It was too competitive, especially for a friendly game. In the first half, I'm sorry to say, we lost our heads and when you do that it's difficult to come back.

"Wecame here to play football and it was not good from our side in the first half. It was better in the second.".

Striker Michael Owen admits that Spain deserved to win the match.

He said: "I think everyone suffered because they played particularly well and we didn't. Sometimes you get games like that and they are best forgotten.

"They penned us back in and played good football. The worse a team gets the more the defence gets called into action and the strikers see less of the ball.

"I don't think we created a chance as a team."

Goalkeeper Paul Robinson saved a first-half penalty after he was adjudged to have brought down Raul, despite clearly appearing to connect with the ball.

"I took the ball very cleanly and it definitely was not a penalty and I was really pleased to save it," said Robinson.

"Once it's given, it's given so you've just got to get on with it.

"They played particularly well. We weren't at the races in the first half, we were disjointed.

"But saying that they played really well. Second half we came out and made a better job of it."