World Cup TV: Lacklustre England but at least it's not fatal

The temperature in the Al Bayt is 23 degrees, George Hamilton informs us. Damn it anyway. I’d been waiting all week to crack a gag about a rainy night in Doha.
MEDIA VIEW: Gareth Southgate, Head Coach of England speaks during an ITV Sport Interview. Pic: Facundo Arrizabalaga - Pool/Getty Images

MEDIA VIEW: Gareth Southgate, Head Coach of England speaks during an ITV Sport Interview. Pic: Facundo Arrizabalaga - Pool/Getty Images

The day starts with a bang, and quite a bang it is. Poor old Mehdi Taremi.

Wales/Iran is scoreless with time running out when Wayne Hennessey, a man with more e’s to his name than your local drug dealer, charges out from his goal and enacts a kung fu move on Taremi.

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