From Wayne to Kane: England exceed expectations subsequent to dumping Mr Big Stuff attitude

Since Rooney resigned England are unbeaten and brimming with objectives while Kane is the ideal star of a group worked without starriness

the last shriek was blown at the Nizhny Novgorod Stadium Kyle Walker snatched the match ball and happily crushed it in a curve into the white and red seats, where a pulverize of warmth stricken voyaging fans floundered and waved and murmured, relaxing in the radiant impossibility of England's 6-1 thrashing of Panama.

The expectation presumably gets you at last however it is verifiable fun while it endures. Now and again like these competition football can feel somewhat like a bound occasion sentiment, a World Cup amass organize form of the broodingly great looking Spanish server who'll take you for a pedalo ride, wave farewell and never compose, yet who will remain everlastingly an affectionate, cologne-splashed summer memory.

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Britain's two Group G wins will be taken in more calm setting by the players and administration. Panama were a poor group, with a permeable safeguard drove by the chief, Román Torres, who floated around the edge of the amusement like a Soviet-time fight cruiser rusting its last days away at the Kaliningrad docks.

Then again England have played poor groups previously at World Cups and never won this way. Maybe those on the edge may be permitted to lounge only a little in the 68-year uncommonness of a 6-1 win against anybody. Game is about minutes. Also, as an insightful man once stated, when something's great it's never gone.