Young goalkeeper had been maligned by Thibaut Courtois and pundits alike after the group defeat by Belgium but he had the final word in Moscow – and then someWhatever you say I am, that’s what I’m not. On a night of taut, bruising knockout football in Moscow’s Spartak Stadium, it felt brilliantly fitting that Jordan Pickford should turn out to be the hero.First things first. Do not adjust your reality. England really did win a World Cup match on penalties, the first time this has happened. It was always coming too, one way or another. Even as England took the lead against Colombia through Harry Kane, then conceded right at the end, England’s players must have felt something walking among them on the pitch, flickering in and out, the same old ghost at the feast. Continue reading…
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