Whether it is the troops who wrote to him after Ukraine’s qualification for Euro 2024, the opportunity to give the people of his country respite from the grief they have suffered or his own future, Georgiy Sudakov knows the European Championship will be like no other for him and his team-mates.
The move brought an end to the England captain’s trophy-laden time in the Premier League.
Hey Jude. He took that sad song and he made it better. It may have only been an opening group game and there may be a long and winding road still to go if England are to reach the final of the European Championship in Berlin on July 14. But do not under-estimate the importance of this performance from Jude Bellingham. He made the first-half against Serbia his own – it is hard to recall a contribution so dominant from an England midfielder – and he helped force his country over the line.