England’s Euro 2016 nightmare returns with Iceland’s Wembley visit

The loss to Iceland at Euro 2106 was, according to Alan Shearer, ‘the worst performance I’ve seen from an England team’. Photograph: Lars Baron/Getty Images

A series of red-roofed villas are perched high on the steep Mediterranean hillsides above the Stade de Nice. Viewed from certain angles they can appear in peril of sliding down into the city beneath. It is an optical illusion, unlike England’s painful, vertiginous, fall from grace in that arena on 27 June 2016.

Roy Hodgson’s side lost 2-1 to Iceland in France as Euro 2016 entered the last 16 and the continent came to terms with the UK’s Brexit vote and David Cameron’s resignation as prime minister.