Sometimes there are moments in football that appear to render everything else obsolete. A split second is all it takes, time freezes, and it is as if everything else is wiped from reality. The magnitude of the rest of the highs and lows matters little; one event reduces them to minutiae.
For England that event was Keira Walsh’s injury. A stadium – and a nation back home – were sickened by what they’d seen. Her foot was awkwardly planted, her knee extended and a stretcher was brought on as her teammates embarked on futile attempts to console her.
