“It is a game that inevitably will live with us forever,” Gareth Southgate said, and it feels a little closer now, the bad memories back to the front of everybody’s minds. Italy are in town on Saturday night, albeit it is Wolverhampton rather than London, for the latest instalment of the cluttered end-of-season Nations League programme and England, once again, must remember that defeat.
The recap is unnecessary. Suffice to say that Italy finished a tumultuous Wembley occasion with the Euro 2020 trophy last summer and what happened off the pitch meant that much of what had led up to the day was overshadowed.
