It is the morning after the night before, and this is not how it was supposed to be. There is deep gloom. England’s showdown with Italy went wrong. Football is not, it turns out, coming home.Â
It ended horribly, with 19 year-old Bukayo Saka in tears after he missed the crucial final penalty, making Italy the victors in Euro 2020.
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France bid the Olympic Games adieu last night. Aside from the odd hiccup, the fortnight of competitions offered the world awe-inspiring entertainment.
Thorpe was England’s best batsman of the 1990s and, at the turn of the century, quite possibly the best batsman in the world.
An opening ceremony that claimed to be “inclusive” pointedly excluded the world’s 2.4 billion Christians and its 1.5 billion Sunni Muslims too.
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