It was the sort of joyous, uplifting interview that you dream about.
In a dimly lit changing room at Newcastle United’s training ground, the winter wind whipping across the pitches outside, Dan Burn lit the place up.
He was approaching the year anniversary of his dream move “back home” from Brighton & Hove Albion and was on brilliant form, talking presciently about how it felt “inevitable” that this generation of Newcastle players would end the club’s long wait for a trophy.
But when talk turned to England, the smile thinned.
The 2022 World Cup was on the horizon and Gareth Southgate had just picked his 55-man provisional squad.
