So pleased for Gerrard.

baz, lowestoft,

James in Bath- completely agree, well said.

Tamzin, Manchester, UK

Well done lads, a win is a win.
BUT your passing was often pathetic [except to opponents] and your long, hopeful, balls into empty spaces upfront, mainly out wide was exactly that -- no better than hopeful.

Gerry, Cardiff, uk

Who should play the holding role against the stronger teams? Lampard did ok there for a bit last night but he is not exactly Makelele - I think getting possession, with both gerrard and lampard on the field, will be difficult against a good team.

Rooney is great though -what a talent.

Adam, Edinburgh, Scotland

I was disappointed that Beckham was only on for a few minutes at the end of the game. Surely he is fitter than that!
It made him look like a token gesture, nothing more than a crowd pleaser. He can't possibly be happy with that.

Lynn, Funchal, Portugal

Win all ten qualifiers? Surely the away match in Ukraine will hardly be in the "turkey shoot" category. Though hopefully the home match against Croatia won't be played under the same fraught conditions as the last. (Sorry, folks, for even mentioning that nightmare again.)

peter koeb, aljezur, portugal

What is the all the excitement about and so early?! Belarus (ranked 57), Andorra (186), Kazakhstan (120), Croatia (5). Beat Spain or Brazil first then praise England. Typical hysteria.

Alex, London,

Reality check please!

They just beat Belarus.................that great footballing nation.

Let's not get carried away.

Rob, London, UK

Heskey was brilliant.

For the crucial second goal, he laid it on a plate for Rooney.

A.Knox, Manchester,

Where now are all those who derided Heskey.
I've followed his career since his first matches and, in his way, he's been a forerunner of Rooney.

We must keep the same team and the shape and begin to focus on refinements.

Leigh Vernier, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

In reply to rob from colchester, what are talking about?, Beckham was the only positve factor against Kasikstan, we were rubbish until the last 10 mins when becks came on. Was not very impressed last night, we need to be able to keep the ball against such opposition, at least rooney is playing well.

tom, Ashford, uk

WHOA! Well beaters? Not quite, a fatastic display but not perfect IMHO.
There still remains one question in my mind, why can Lampard play a disciplined holding role and Gerrard cannot? We were alittle fortunate that they didn't have a world class right winger the amount of times Gerrard disappeare

Will, Huntingdon,

Perfect? Time to lower expectations? Based on the performance of England's midfield last night I would not expect them to beat any top class side. They were thoroughly out-passed, as usual, by a Belarus side lacking their only world-class player. Good result but a very patchy perfomance.

MDHinton, Sieradz, Poland

How sweet is that? £6 million a year and Capello's next game's in April? Lubbly jubbly.

Good game, though. Well done England.

Julian, Twickenham, UK

It was lucky that nothing turned on Gerard's miss. It made Illewumo look like a marksman. Not quite in the Diego Forlan class but not far short.

Julius Blumfeld, London,

pete from Birmingham sums up our "X FACTOR" and "HELLO" mag culture where h Beckham is the "star" even when he isnt anywhwere near being worthy of the england team.Now the celebrity footballer is being relgeated to the margins,england appear to be playing progressive football once again,rejoice.

rob, colchester, uk

That's great. Would have been even better to watch it. What has happened to this country when you can't watch a World Cup Qualifier without paying for a stack of satellite providers? Don't even get me started on the cricket. It's the same greed that's wrecking the economy.

James, Bath,

So why couldn't Keegan, Erickson and Maclaren do it?

Simple: they're useless.

Pinkie, London, United Kingdom

Well done England and Rooney. But the Beckham factor is still there, as the Belarus crowd cheered and clapped him when he came on as a late substitute. Even the goal line photographers were spurred into frenzied action to snap the England player in action. Great ambassador for English football.

pete, birmingham, uk

Does everyone still think that Carlos Tevez is way better than Rooney?

Fergus Sira-Lexon, England,