England hit a new low with meltdown in Nice

Where do England go from here, apart from home, of course? 

England hit a new low with meltdown in Nice

Even by England’s standards this was a new low. We’ve all been here before of course. The false optimism, followed by the false start and then the full stop, as a nation’s hopes end in crushing defeat, usually around the quarter-final stage.

But they haven’t even got that far this time, beaten by a team from a country with a population the same as that of Leicester. And in the spirit of Leicester City, Iceland showed the so-called big boys how it should be done.

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