Football finally had a shred of humanity we could identify and empathise with players as actual people who were just trying to be better. This was all leadership by example by real leader, Gareth Southgate. No shifty kicks to a rival groin, no ‘nice to see your home fans booing you’ to a TV camera – just quiet grace in defeat, giving us hope for the next tournament, and making icons out of runners up. One supposedly inevitable thing didn’t happen, however – because, for a change, the squad in question acted with dignity, humanity and poise, both throughout the tournament and in dealing with the fallout.
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