The realisation is yet to set in for Nikita Parris.
One month on from that moment at a sold out Wembley when the full-whistle went and it felt like the nation neared combustion, the scale of England’s achievement remains impossible to fully comprehend for those who were at the heart of it.
They are back together this week - well, most of them - for two World Cup qualifiers that they are expected to win easily. The buzz remains high, complete understanding not yet possible. “I don’t think we’ll really appreciate what we did for a long time yet,” Parris says. “We’re on the highest part of the wave currently.”
