This was the perfect way to end the longest season ever.
A thumping win, a brilliant hat-trick from England’s best young talent and a message of intent ahead of next summer’s Euros. Bukayo Saka kissed the match ball after scoring his third - the first hat trick of his senior career - and then went off to a standing ovation and a giant hug from Gareth Southgate after being substituted.
England have got a world class star in the making, a real gem on their hands, and you can tell his popularity and lovely manner from the way he was high-fived by everyone on the bench. Saka, aged 21 and 287 days, is the youngest player to score a hat trick for England since Theo Walcott - then aged 19 and 178 days - got a treble against Croatia in September 2008.
