EXCLUSIVE BY CRAIG HOPE AND JACK GAUGHAN: No boots. No balls. No bibs. What would Roy Keane say? This threatened to be England's very own Saipan. Or, rather, 'Sly Van'.

CRAIG HOPE AND JACK GAUGHAN IN KANSAS: Boots belonging to the team's biggest stars were pinched along with official balls and key training equipment.

England's World Cup preparations have been hit by the theft of equipment ahead of the squad's arrival at their Kansas City training base on Saturday.