Wayne Rooney snapped at fans as he marched from the pitch after last night's game and snarled a message down the lens of a TV camera.
'Nice to see your own fans booing you,' a furious Rooney could be heard to say.
'That's what loyal support is'.
His tirade came at the end of a chaotic and fractious night for the team as they stumbled to a an abject 0-0 draw against minnows Algeria.
Millions of viewers in pubs and at home who had raced out of work early were left scratching their heads as England failed to make their over-hyped quality count.
And the thousands who turned the Cape Town stadium into a sea of white and red made their feelings known at the final whistle.
London Mayor Boris Johnson, who was at the match, told a source: 'What was that? That was diabolical'.
It was revealed today that a peak audience of 21.3million watched the game on ITV1 - a million more than watched the first England match last Saturday against the United States.
Rooney was the biggest star to underperform but coach Fabio Capello must now go back to the drawing board to discover the reason captain Steven Gerrard, Frank Lampard and wing ace Aaron Lennon also failed to click.
