Take 10 Londoners, three Mancunians, two Black Countrymen, two Cumbrians, two Geordies and two Mackems, sprinkle in one each from Liverpool, Cheshire, Devon, Northampton and Yorkshire – and see if they can end 60 years of hurt

Here we are then, at the gates of North America, 26 Englishmen tasked with winning a football tournament on 19 July. Cue two months of febrile debate, anxiety and at the end of it…

The back-to-back European Championship runners-up are among the favourites to triumph in North America.