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I lost interest in professional football in the 1990s. The players put me off. They were, or appeared to be, a bunch of overpaid, ill-behaved prima donnas.
I no longer think that. Today’s England team has won me over. At a time of bitter dispute over what it means to be English, these gifted young men are displaying all the values that we as a country once held dear.