England are good at football!

The summer wasn't just a collective fever dream, people. Who knew? Meanwhile everything is absolutely fine at Aston Villa.

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England are good at football!

There was a slight sense after, and even during the World Cup, that England’s progress to the semi-finals in Russia was something of a freak, a result of a favourable draw that would come to be regarded as a one-off rather than a tournament indicative of future performance. What they needed was a convincing win against a genuine superpower to convince us that the summer wasn’t in fact a one-off.