Jack Grealish strolling around Wembley in wide-eyed wonder after England’s Euro 2020 triumphs was one of the most wholesome and endearing football images of last year.
Childhood dreams were being played out and reflected upon in real-time for a player who, for a brief period, felt like an old-fashioned English sporting folk hero.
Nowadays, he’s Manchester City’s £100million man who gets booed everywhere he goes. After Saturday’s occasionally fractious 1-1 draw at Southampton, the immediate post-match routine had radically changed.
