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Good evening, and welcome to our LIVE coverage of England's World Cup qualifying clash against San Marino.

World Cup Qualification UEFA / Matchday 3
Wembley / 12.10.2012
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    Toby Keel

    Updated 12/10/2012 at 21:54 GMT+1


    19:45
    Some bad omens out there for England tonight: Sweden went behind to the Faroe Islands before eking out a 2-1 win earlier, Lithuania are being given a real match by Liechtenstein, while Italy have made heavy weather of beating Armenia.
    19:40
    England aren't the only team playing tonight: you can
    19:35
    In each of England's two previous World Cup qualifiers against San Marino - both part of the ill-fated World Cup 1994 qualifying campaign - someone has come through to score four goals. What price a captain's performance from Wayne Rooney tonight to do the same?
    19:30
    We've got our own man at Wembley tonight, who will be Tweeting live from the stadium and adding a bit of on-the-spot insight to our live commentary.
    19:25
    Davide Simoncini and his brother Aldo Simoncini both start for San Marino. Amazingly, the brothers hold a world record in the game: they are the only twins ever to score an own goal each in an international fixture, a double-disaster they pulled off against Sweden two years ago.
    19:21
    If it begins to rain, expect San Marino to cluster around their dynamic centre-back Brolli. Chuckle.
    19:20
    Slightly unbelievably, Wembley is sold out for this match. More credible is the fact that Leighton Baines and Kyle Walker both start (the latter getting his first start for England) in what is a young England side.
    19:15
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    TEAMS - England: Hart, Walker, Baines, Carrick, Jagielka, Cahill, Walcott, Cleverley, Welbeck, Rooney (C), Oxlade-Chamberlain. Subs: Cole, Ruddy, Lescott, Shawcross, Milner, Shelvey, A Johnson, Lennon, Carroll, Defoe, Forster. //// San Marino: A Simoncini, F Vitaioli, Palazzi, Brolli, D Simoncini, Della Valle, Cibelli, Coppini, Cervellini, Danilo, Gasperoni. Subs: Valentini, Bacciocchi, Bollini, Buscarini, Marani, Mazza, Selva, Vannucci, M Vitaioli
    19:10
    Facing such minnows at Wembley is a bit of a banana skin for Roy Hodgson's men: only goals in double figures will do, and most commentators are scathing about why such games even need to happen.
    19:05
    England are up against the world's 207th best team tonight - and no, the FIFA rankings don't go any lower than that. San Marino are tied alongside Turks & Caicos as international football's joint worst team.