England left nursing regrets after falling agonisingly short once more | Barney Ronay
Football is coming home … but it turns out that home is in Spain, the dominant football culture of the age
And fade to red. The Euro 2024 trophy will not, it turns out be coming back with the players to England after all. The parade can be scaled back, the beds turned down, the welcome basket stashed. Monday will be a day for hangovers and regrets, which is in its own way English football’s own safe place.
But it is at least headed to a very good home as England’s footballers were eased aside in Berlin’s Olympiastadion by a supremely coherent and gifted Spanish team. A 2-1 victory, the winner coming painfully late, means Spain are now four time winners of Europe’s elite competition.
