When Raheem Sterling grew up within the shadow of the Wembley, he would ride around on his bike marvelling at the gleaming stadium, dreaming of playing here. He even has a tattoo of him as a young boy staring up in awe at the arch. Life now imitates artwork, and Wembley reverberates to homage for Sterling. He scored a hat-trick here, the first England player to achieve that feat at Wembley since Jermain Defoe against Bulgaria in 2010. It was the perfect exhibition of Sterling’s talents, and also gave England the ideal start in qualifying for Euro 2020, and as if anybody needed reminding the final of the competition will be staged under the arch, and Sterling is determined to be there, the local lad…

Source: The Times March 22, 2019 21:56 UTC