England’s rehabilitation of talismanic Ibrahimovic

So, Zlatan… it seems safe enough, at this stage, to conclude that he has good feet for a big man.

But can we go any further? After close to a decade of debate, during which most of the great and the good have had their say about which of their camps he ought to belong, it appears Wednesday night shifted some positions.

But should it have? The sceptics’ portrayal of Ibrahimovic as an arrogant flat-track bully, who won’t show on the biggest nights, ought not to have been fatally undermined by a goal at the dog end of a friendly, under the unwatchful eyes of gauche auditionees like Ryan Shawcross and Carl Jenkinson.