THERE'S yet more injury woe for England today (Monday), as the fears over Ledley King's future in the competition hangs in the balance following his groin injury on Saturday evening.

King along with Wayne Rooney and Ashley Cole all missed out on training earlier today in Rustenburg, but Rooney's problem is not thought to be serious.

England started off their campaign with a relatively unconvincing 1-1 draw with the USA on Saturday (12 June) evening.

Although the American team consisted of several experienced Premiership and Championship players, the English lacked flair and ideas.

Steven Gerrard's goal seemed to get the game off to a good start, the captain setting the pace for his team.

But the game never really got off the ground for the Three Lions and Robert Green's goalkeeping blunder became the main spectacle for Fabio Capello's side.

We got the post-match verdict from three Watford personalities - former Hornet Tommy Mooney who now lives in Spain, TalkSport commentator and Watford fan John Anderson who is out in South Africa covering the tournament and BBC 3 CR's Jon Marks who is giving us the view from the English shores.

Watford Legend Tommy Mooney helps us out with our World Cup blog

The view from Spain: Tommy Mooney

"Hola amigos!

"Let's get it out of the way.... It was a mistake and it's often said in football 'it's not the mistake that's important.... It's the reaction to it!' and I thought Rob Green did well to gather his game both on the pitch and with the media.

"In fact within minutes of the goal I got a text from my former skipper at Birmingham saying 'see I told you he had no hands in his gloves! This comment referred back to my hat-trick for Blues against Norwich and Rob some years ago!

"What concerns me more is the lack of opportunities for our stronger finishers; Wayne Rooney, Frank Lampard and Peter Crouch, which I feel was down to the lack of tempo and structure in our play.

"If we continue to leave the 'match winning chances' to Emile Heskey, I'll be seeing our boys holidaying in Marbella long before the final!

"All of that said, a jab of reality in the first game won't do anyone any harm with more than enough time to improve and progress.

"Come on England!"

The view from South Africa: John Anderson

"Robert Green's clanger in the savannah ensured a disappointing start for England especially after Steven Gerrard had given us the perfect early platform to go on and win the game.

"But you have to credit the West Ham keeper who was brave in facing the media, admitting his mistake and vowing to come back stronger.

Robert Green: brave to face the media after his mistake on Saturday?

"He was by no means the only England failure; James Milner especially and Aaron Lennon disappointed on the flanks and Jamie Carragher's lack of pace was brutally exposed when he replaced Ledley King.

"Fabio Capello's judgement in starting with the injury prone King and Milner, who has been suffering a virus all week, must also come into question.

"Not the start we wanted then, but let's not forget that in 1966 the campaign also kicked off with a lacklustre draw."

"With the bbq duties completed by early evening on Saturday, I was joined with my friends and family as we sat down ready for kick-off.

"The England goal almost took us by surprise as it came so early and I think we all expected an avalanche then - certainly one of the kids in my street must have been rubbing his hands, as his prediction to me earlier that afternoon had been a 55-0 England win!

"But as we know, it wasn't to be - I feel really sorry for Robert Green, the latest England goalkeeper to make a horrendous high profile error.

"Players make mistakes, people make mistakes but when they happen to goalkeepers they are highlighted so much more and will always cost their side a goal.

"This wasn't a disastrous result or performance but I did feel very flat afterwards, almost as if it had been a non-event. England should have won, Heskey and Wright-Phillips (oh to have had Adam Johnson on the left!) should have scored, but the USA could have won when Altidore outpaced Carragher and Green saved the day.

"Lots of questions about the selection and shape of the team are left to be debated in the next few days in the aftermath.

"It would appear to me that we need to be a little bit more cute than just a basic 4-4-2 and Capello needs to find a way to get Rooney involved in the game much more.

"But it could have been a whole lot worse….I could have been watching on ITV HD…!!"