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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Barry Glendenning

England are in the World Cup final. It sounds great doesn’t it?

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Mary Earps gets the party started in the England dressing room.
Mary Earps gets the party started in the England dressing room. Yes, Mary! Photograph: Naomi Baker/The FA/Getty Images

IT’S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN!

England are in the World Cup final. England are in the World Cup final. England are in the World Cup final. England are in the World Cup final. England are in the World Cup final. Whichever words you emphasise, it still sounds great, not least because the last time the world’s most daily football email opened in such a fashion, it was written on one of those Jessica Fletcher-style typewriters from the opening credits of Murder, She Wrote and delivered by carrier pigeon a full 18 years before the first episode of the hit series starring Angela Lansbury aired on CBS.

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