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Make sense of that. Thomas Tuchel’s masterplan was melting in the maddening Florida heat, England in pain and incoherent and verging on incompetent. At half-time Steve Aoki dunked an overexcited bloke’s face in a birthday cake on the big...
A curiosity that might, in a certain light, look like a crisis: before Saturday’s quarter- inal with Norway, not a single Premier League player had scored for England at this World Cup. All but one of Thomas Tuchel’s team’s goals had been scored...
See you in the final. That was how it looked when Pelé and Bobby Moore embraced after the match and swapped shirts. It was obvious that England vs Brazil was a rivalry that would define football for years to come. England were probably a better...
England beat Mexico 3-2 at the Azteca last weekend and it’s been raining superlatives ever since. Wayne Rooney said it was “one of their best ever performances”. Other assessments include “Greatest of all time” and “England’s greatest World...
It was going to be the most dismal World Cup of all time. Pete Davies, given unprecedented (and never-to-be repeated) access to the England team, called his resulting book All Played Out: for surely the campaign would reflect the...
Michael Owen was 18. And fast. His movement was lightning: his thoughts were much faster. He fed voraciously on momentary hesitation: so slight, so swift and so certain. England fell behind to a penalty won by the great actor Diego Simeone,...