Iain Martin and Alastair Benn from Reaction discuss the impact of England’s extraordinary success in Euro 2020/21 and the management style of Gareth Southgate, the England manager. Does the way this England team is restoring pride mean the end of the attachment to the morose idea that the country has been jinxed by the fates since Italia 1990 and is destined always to go out on penalties? If progressive Southgate’s three lions win will it have a political impact? Or is this just football? And what do two Scotland fans make of the prospect of an English triumph in Sunday’s final?
