DIFFERENT

groups of people see different signs of summer’s arrival. To music lovers it’s the festivals getting into full swing, to gardeners the Chelsea Flower Show. But to football fans it’s an England coach, like Under-21s’ chief Aidy Boothroyd, saying on on the eve of a tournament: “We will be practising penalties.

“We have one or two ideas to make sure that when it comes to it we will be ready. But we have to be in a position where we get to practise them because last time we didn’t get to that stage.”

Fire up the barbie mother, it’s summer.