Being a sports writer has its privileges. It allows, among other things, the chance to live out some of football’s biggest nights from the inside, infiltrated, sometimes like a spy – the Champions Lea

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Not for the first time that day, the skinny whelp in blue had given the ball away – outmuscled and outmanoeuvred by kids that were twice his size. Still, there was something about the lad that impress

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With those words, UEFA chief Giorgio Marchetti handed over the European Under-21 Championship trophy to James McAtee in June. The triumphant captain had just become the second member of his family to