England 3-0 Wales (Rogers 3’, Watkins 11’, Saka 20’)

WEMBLEY – Once more it was the Battle of Britain, although doesn’t everything feel that way now? The fight for the right to scale a lamppost wielding the Union Jack. The internal conflict of whether to spend your Bank Holiday painting flags on the roundabout. The war on Gary Neville.

Wembley can still, on occasion, feel like a sanctuary from the peculiarities of the outside world. The fans inside it nevertheless earned a furious rap from Thomas Tuchel for being “silent” and lacking “energy” against Wales, a scolding which dampened a little of the goodwill felt towards him at full time.

It is worth saying that Wales had made their own problems, not least by agreeing to this fixture in the first place. But it is equally true that in

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