Jude Bellingham: A man who always seems to be running downhill

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LIONS ROAR: England's Jude Bellingham

England’s second goal just before half-time, the goal that killed Sunday's World Cup last-16 tie, was a pure Jude Bellingham moment.

Watching from high in the gods of Al Bayt Stadium as three white England shirts surged and veered like an aerial display team across that lozenge of wide‑open green space, it almost felt like a moment of show-Bellingham, a glossy set piece to go with all the close‑quarter stuff in between, the moments of graft that had kept England in this game in its early stages.