Joe Hart does not care if England go through Euro 2016 qualifying with a 100 per cent record as it is their performance in the finals that matters.One of the more experienced players in Roy Hodgson's squad, the 28-year-old goalkeeper is looking ahead to his fourth major tournament with the Three Lions.Hart was number one at Euro 2012 and then at the 2014 World Cup, having been restricted to a watching brief in South Africa four years earlier.England progressed to all three of those tournaments as group winners, only to falter on the main stage - frustration that makes the Manchester City goalkeeper philosophical about the team's current success.Hodgson's men will look to make it nine wins from as many Group E games when Estonia visit on Friday, before a trip to Lithuania rounds off qualification."I think crowning it all would be obviously winning the tournament," Hart said on the prospect of winning every qualifier."These are two games we are going to look to win like we've looked to win all the games so far."We've accomplished that so it is two more games, it is two more games of working on the kind of way that we want to play and then we move on."Put to him that it would be a commendable feat, Hart said: "It is still two games away from happening."But I don't see it as being that great an achievement unless we go on and do well in the tournament in the summer."Upcoming friendlies against Spain, France and Germany will provide a better yardstick with which to measure England's progress since the World Cup.That failure in Brazil still lingers in the back of the mind, but Hart believes better times lie ahead."I definitely feel there is a great deal of belief in the squad," he said. "We feel good as a squad, with the management and the players."We've done well. We've picked ourselves up. We were obviously very disappointed a couple of summers ago, but life goes on, football goes on."We've reacted in the right way and we're trying to definitely build something. It is a two-year plan and we're halfway through it now and we need to put it right in the summer."Hart will no doubt have a key role in that as one of just three squad members to have broken the 50-cap barrier, with captain Wayne Rooney the only player to have reached a century.Rooney - a doubt for the Estonia encounter with an ankle complaint - is England's all-time top scorer, having last month beat Sir Bobby Charlton's long-standing international goalscoring record."It is a fantastic achievement from a great player and someone who has grown into, for me, a really good captain," Hart said. "I am proud to have played a lot of those games with Wayne. "No matter what the situation - whether he has been in good form, bad form - he turns up and gives his all for the badge, which I am sure he does for his club team."You can't ask for much more than Wayne Rooney. I don't think anyone in the game would have a bad word to say about him."I certainly don't and I am very honoured to play with him and have him as my captain."
Source: PA