England beat Scotland 3-0 at Wembley

England now top Group F with seven points from three games, while Scotland sit fourth with four points.

“It’s been a long time since I’ve scored in an England shirt and it’s always a proud moment”, he said.

But it leaves England and Scotland open to sanctions from world governing body Federation Internationale de Football Association, whose rules forbid players from wearing “political, religious or personal slogans, statements or images”.

England were not wholly convincing in their 3-0 win over Scotland, and Adam Lallana says the players had a dressing-down at the break.

Gordon Strachan’s Scotland were thrashed 3-0 by the Auld Enemy at Wembley, leaving them in fifth-place and putting the manager’s future under scrutiny.

“I’m just content we’ve won the game tonight – that was the most important thing”.

England return to Wembley on Tuesday night (15 November) for the final fixture of Southgate’s caretaker tenure, a friendly match against Spain.

He said: “It wasn’t as comfortable as we would have liked at the start of the game. I’ve got to send them back feeling they gave it their best shot”. Last time we were thrown together in hard circumstances but this time he’s started to get his points across in training and it’s important we buy in and keep going. “At the moment in time.it’s nothing to do with me”.

“You think I’m thinking about myself when all these guys have gone through that, all their families have travelled down here, the supporters travelled down here?”

Southgate has consistently expressed his desire to take on the role full-time and indicated he expects the process to begin after the game against Spain. We have a lot of home games coming up and we need to make them count.

England – who had captain Wayne Rooney restored to the starting line-up – had looked unsteady against a Scotland side still smarting from a 3-0 loss to Slovakia last time out, until Sturridge’s clever header put them ahead on 24 minutes.

Moments later, Griffiths tried an optimistic shot when the unmarked Snodgrass was in the clear outside him after Rooney had given the ball away as England escaped a problem of their own making. Although acknowledging that improvement is obviously still needed in certain areas, Southgate feels that such a positive result will act as a real confidence boost for a group of players widely lambasted in the aftermath of their ugly exit from Euro 2016.

The oldest match in worldwide football takes place for the 112th time as Scotland are looking to end a run that has seen them lose four of there last five games against their southern neighbours.