Progress through Group D has become a little tortured but England are not in as bad a spot as some would have us believe
Oh dear. This wasn’t how it looked in the brochures. If you believe everything you read England’s progress through Euro 2020 Group D has now become a kind of social media meme made flesh.
How it started: 37 goals in qualifying, Gareth stroking his beard in the shadow of the Goljak mountains, pondering his weapons of fluently interchangeable attacking destruction.
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