Everything was quiet in the
England camp until one moment as Poland’s late equaliser disrupted their serene progress
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It was easy to imagine the gravelly tones of the voiceover from those epic
Hollywood movie trailers. Everything was quiet in the England camp. A little too quiet. Gareth Southgate smiled when the notion was put to him before Wednesday night’s
World Cup qualifier against Poland in Warsaw.
There was a time, the England manager admitted, when he would worry if things were going smoothly to the extent that he would “go looking for problems”. He knows now it is simply better to enjoy the good periods, which these had been with five wins out of five on the road to Qatar 2022, because, well, this is England and one moment can wholly distort the narrative.