By. Matt Barlow. Follow @@Matt_Barlow_DM. Harry Redknapp’s remedy for England’s World Cup hangover is to stop trying to mimic their more successful European rivals and focus on producing football branded with their own national identity. After signing former England captain Rio Ferdinand, the Queens Park Rangers manager claimed there are plenty of quality players and wants to see Roy Hodgson forge them into a team based on attacking flair with the confidence to play out of defence. He said: 'I thought England were certainties to win what in my opinion was a very poor group. I was very surprised. Costa Rica winning the group tells you everything really. VIDEO Scroll down to watch Harry Redknapp hint that he'd still be interested in England job. Passionate: Redknapp didn't hold back when asked about his views on England's demise. Pointing the finger: Redknapp says England must develop their own style of play to be used from top to bottom. 'We have good players and we have a good manager. Don’t ask me what happens. We’ve had lots of good players and managers since 1966. But we are going to win the World Cup in Qatar so they say, in 40 degree heat.' Here was a swipe at FA chairman Greg Dyke who launched a nine-year plan last year to win the title by 2022 and the QPR boss, overlooked when Hodgson took the job two years ago, clearly has little faith in the FA to stop the slump. 'Germany won because Germany produce good players. It goes in cycles. 'France win the World Cup and we have to copy the French. Then it’s Spain, so we have to copy Spain. And then Germany. Quality: Redknapp says England must start playing from the back, just like he told Rio Ferdinand to do as a youngster. VIDEO Ferdinand completes QPR move. Backing: Despite England's latest setback Redknapp still believes Hodgson is a good manager. 'Let’s be ourselves. Let’s get the best players and decide what is England’s style of play and everyone should play the same way, down through the youth teams and employ people to work with the kids who want to play that way.'Play from the back, like I said to Rio Ferdinand when he was 16: ‘Come out with the ball, I don’t want to see you booting the ball up the pitch. You play and if you lose the ball I will take the blame because I’m telling you to play that way.'We have to do that with England and produce teams who play from the back. But the people involved in the younger England teams, are they people who want to play that way? I don’t know.'

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The QPR boss believes England need to concentrate on developing their own national identity instead of copying other nations. Redknapp was shocked after England finished bottom of their World Cup group. He also questions if the right people are in charge of the youth set-up in the national team.

Former West Ham midfielder Jack Collison has joined Ipswich Town on a short-term contract. The Welsh international has been without a club since leaving Upton Park in the summer following nine years with the Hammers. Collison spent time on trial at Portman Road recently, as well as Birmingham and QPR. Jack Collison has been without a club since leaving West Ham at the end of last season. Jack Collison has struggled with injury problems in recent years. Jack Collison trained with QPR in pre-season after his departure from Upton Park. Mick McCarthy had given up hope of signing the 25-year-old, but Collison has now penned a deal with the Tractor Boys that runs until December. His time in east London was plagued by injury problems, restricting him to 121 appearances since signing from Cambridge United in 2007. Collison spent time on loan at Bournemouth and Wigan Athletic last season before leaving the Hammers at the end of the campaign. Jack Collison spent the end of last season on loan at Wigan Athletic.

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Collison has been without a club since leaving West Ham in the summer. Midfielder agrees short-term contract with Tractor Boys until December. Welshman has also spent time on trial at QPR and Birmingham City.

It's given us robot cars and internet-enabled glasses -- but when it came to creating a "Street View" of a desert, Google hit on a low-tech solution. It hired a camel. The beast has become the first animal to carry Google's Trekker camera, which is typically hoisted by humans to capture 360-degree images of destinations inaccessible to its Street View cars. Google spokeswoman Monica Baz says the camel, reportedly named Raffia, was an apt way of documenting the beautiful shifting sands of Abu Dhabi's Liwa Oasis. "With every environment and every location, we try to customize the capture and how we do it for that part of the environment," she told The National newspaper. "In the case of Liwa we fashioned it in a way so that it goes on a camel so that it can capture imagery in the best, most authentic and least damaging way," Baz said. The Liwa Oasis is a 100 kilometer-wide (62-mile) scenic desert, southeast of the city of Abu Dhabi that includes some of the world's biggest sand dunes. Bizarre sights. Street View Treks have previously explored sites including the Grand Canyon, Mount Everest, the Eiffel Tower, the Egyptian pyramids and the complexes of temples around Angkor Wat in Cambodia. There's even an subaquatic Trek of waters around the Galapagos islands. Of course, while the camel can only be seen in shadow on the images it captured, Google's Street View cars have witnessed plenty of other bizarre sights. Earlier this year one clocked what appeared to be the scene of an ax murder on the streets of Edinburgh. It later turned out to be a prank staged by auto mechanics who'd spotted the car on its approach. Another hoax involved a woman pretending to give birth on a roadside. The service, which began in 2007, has also hosted more startling sights such as a naked guy climbing out the trunk of a car and a man with the head of a horse.

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Abu Dhabi's Liwa Oasis is captured using a Google Trekker camera attached to a camel. Google spokeswoman says the beast was most appropriate way to explore the area. Google's Treks have previously explored the Grand Canyon, the Egyptian pyramids and the Galapagos islands.