The Goal That Saved England
How Jude Bellingham did it
D? If you’re English, or if you were in England or in the vicinity of an English person, anywhere in the world, you probably saw it: Jude Bellingham’s goal last Sunday night in Gelsenkirchen, for England, against Slovakia. A bicycle kick, a backward over-the-head strike, classically executed. A design in air, like something traced swiftly with an angelic fingertip. Clean connection: Immobilizing the goalkeeper. Funneling time through a point. It was more than beautiful. It was weightless. Pure play. It expressed, you might say, the
