“We’re enjoying the ride," England captain Harry Kane said following Saturday night's dramatic penalty shootout victory over Switzerland — and for the first time this summer, it feels as if the rest of the country is, too.
Gauging the public mood is always one of the challenges of reporting from inside the bubble of a major sporting competition, particularly when it's being played overseas, but the sense from afar across the course of this European Championship has been of a tournament, at least from an English perspective, burning slow.
