"That's the one."
From Steele, that's a speech. That's the keeper question answered in three words by the quietest man in Russia. The shirt I'd taken off Munir, doing the exact thing I took it off Munir to do.
But they'd been in. They'd be back. And the whole England bench had just seen the one place we could be hurt.
Then we showed them the other thing we were.
Because the second we won it, the fist became a knife.
Boussoufa robbed Henderson on one of those backward passes, a clean theft of a tired idea, and the same eleven who'd been a low block half a heartbeat ago were pouring forward in straight fast lines, and Marcus started his stopwatch beside me like a man at the races.
El Ahmadi stayed. El Ahmadi always stays. Everything else went.
