English embarrassment, French farce and German angst -- so far Europe's top footballing nations aren't covering themselves in glory at the World Cup. 2010 has been a difficult World Cup for most of the Europe's top national teams which are either underperforming woefully like England, struggling like Italy, Germany and Spain, or packing their bags like France. France's World Cup campaign turned into a farce on Sunday when the team boycotted a training session in protest at the French Football Federation's dismissal of striker Nicolas Anelka for insulting coach Raymond Domenech. And now it’s the first European team to exit World Cup after finishing last in its group. Meanwhile, in the England camp, Italian coach Fabio Capello was quoted as saying: "It does feel like the last two years have been a waste of time. I don't know why or how the players have arrived at this point."England needs a win against Slovenia on Wednesday afternoon to progress to the knockout stages. Given their astonishingly weak performances in tepid draws against the United States and Algeria, an embarrassing group stage exit is looking like a very real possibility. The current champion and a country with 3,541 professional footballers could only make a draw to New Zealand which only has 25 professionals altogether. The next two days will decide whether South Africa 2010 will enter into the history books as a debacle for European football.