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No cause for optimism from muddled England after dull Slovenia showing despite fortune of Euro 2024 draw

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When some future AI overlord grants its minion-bots the 30 seconds it will take to write the comprehensive history of the current era, it will go down among the great injustices of our time.

That this England, this blunt, unsure, ill-fitting England, go into the knockout stage of this European Championship not only as group winners, but with the road to Berlin cleared of its heftiest blocks.

It should not really be enough to excite anyone. Right now, ’s stumbling, heel-dragging muddle has the look

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