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Well, little value in getting excited after one group game, but you can’t really argue with that as our opening gambit. That had the potential to be a horrible, turgid game, and yet we made it pretty entertaining. Easy to draw comparisons with our demolition of Panama at the last World Cup but...

Or ease off, kill the game and stay booking and injury-free?

Cracking first-half in general that. It’s worth noting that Iran are 20th in the world by the way; we’re making an alright team look very, very shít. For context, the Iceland team that embarrassed us in 2016 were ranked 34th.

Good goal. Game needed that.

The fact that they are self-policed makes the protocols about as effective as a FIFA corruption investigation. There needs to be an independent doctor on point. Still, you have to feel for the goalkeeper - if you watch closely you can see him explaining to his medical staff that this was the...

That countdown to the kick-off was just awful.

Shades of 1998, when I twagged school to watch England beat Tunisia 2-0 in Marseille. Will I be twagging work for a couple of hours today? I am yet to decide. I don’t think today will be as straightforward for England as it looks on paper, nor the group more broadly. When the draw was made I...