The Streets made for fitting accompaniment to the hype video that flooded from England’s social media feeds on Sunday afternoon, the message that this was a Three Lions side ready to end the years of waiting, emulate the heroes of 1966, leave behind those oh-so-nears. Turn the page, was the ask. Only here in Berlin, really, they needed to start a new book.
Instead, on a warm night in the German capital, came a familiar tragedy, the same old story as England stumbled so close, another chapter written in that long tale of hurt.
