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“I had an interesting conversation with a pack of Dutch bikers outside a Scottish castle at the start of the Euros,” boasts Justin Kavanagh. “I poked them, perhaps unwisely, about relying on the Big Man to pull them through against Poland and relying on Wout One football.
“The orange-bedecked crew glared at me and one of them grunted that if Germany can win ugly for decades, it’s ‘our time now to do it with brute force’. Although I wanted to argue that it didn’t work against Spain in 2010, I didn’t disagree. Young Mr. Bellingham and co. might be in for a bruising evening.”
