The England national football team crashed out of the European Championships, held in Poland and Ukraine, just over three weeks before the tournament started after a devastating loss to public reaction to the announcement of the squad on Twitter.
Thousands took to their keyboards within seconds of the naming of the 23-man squad - plus five on standby in case of injury - that will travel to the tournament and the reaction has been such that England have decided they might as well not bother and have crashed out without the inevitable quarter-final defeat on penalties to Italy in Donetsk.
Moments after the final name had been read, '#Hodgsonout' began to trend on Twitter and the immediate response from the FA was to pull the side from the competition. Spokesman Phil Suit said "We feel we have no option after the reaction we've seen but to withdraw. In effect, we lose our three group games 3-0 by default and are out of the tournament already without all that mucking about with training facilities, kicking balls, boring press conferences and something to do with John Terry being a massive helmet".
This is thought to be the earliest any side has been knocked out of the competition since Greece withdrew over 'Tzatziki-gate' back in 1964.
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