This team is “sweeping away this idea that it always goes wrong,” Hayward said. That belief has become exclusive to English soccer in major tournaments. England, and Britain, have enjoyed international success in tennis, cricket and rugby. But soccer has simply been “55 years of hurt.” Added Hayward: “[It’s] almost written into the English way of thinking that whatever you did in a tournament, it was just a matter of time before it went wrong again.”

Source: Washington Post July 07, 2021 09:00 UTC