Ireland and Poland send echoes around Europe

“It’s a scoreline that will echo around Europe,” Clive Tyldesley told viewers excitedly as England neared the final whistle at Wembley on Friday night. 

With due respect to the Scots, who might well have embarrassed their hosts had they been able to shoot straight, England beating Scotland nowadays barely registers across the rest of the continent.

Any echo effect was more in the nature of a dull thud.