Despite heartbreaking exit, many would agree that this is probably the finest England generation that Southgate has unearthed
DOHA: Strange things are happening at this World Cup. While one country is taking its first steps — giant baby ones — into that exclusive club of footballing heavyweights, another is shaping up to become only the second country after Brazil in 1962 to win two back-to-back world titles, its manager to become a straight two-time winner, the first since an Italian in 1934. Vittorio Pozzo was his name and his ghost was being called up all night on football ouija boards as Didier Deschamps felt a sudden cold shiver as England ran his normally-composed France quite ragged.
