I think Sterling exemplifies this fantastically. The press tried to make it all about him, and previous generations have been only too happy for their ego to soak it up, but Sterling is just England through and through.
So do Italy though. I'll talk about defeat after the game. Watching the Newcastle players give their predictions has warmed me up a bit, and I'm beginning to look forward to it. Still not turning on until the pundits have fucked off.
That was at the early stages of the current "new strip every year" bollocks. We've probably had more different strips, since then, than we had before then.
How many did English fans get in Rome? Not that it made much difference as the commentators were proudly commenting on how we managed to get them by hook or by crook.
What was VARs decision? If VAR decided it was a pen, that's a bad decision. But if VAR decide it wasn't a clear and obvious error by the ref then I think it's a good decision.