Sarina Wiegman’s England will spend the majority of next month’s Euro 2022 based at the Lensbury, a luxury resort hotel in south-west London where the Dutch suite is the finest room type on offer. It sounds thoroughly appropriate accommodation for Wiegman, a native of The Hague who, having led the Netherlands to Euro 2017 glory, is now making a very decent job of dressing the Lionesses for success.
On Friday, her team even wore a Dutch-style orange kit as, having weathered a sometimes less than convincing first half littered with cheap concessions of possession, they ultimately thrashed Mark Parsons’s Oranje class of 2022, running out 5-1 winners in a friendly at Elland Road.
