You'll get your chance, son: Roy Hodgson will unleash Wayne Rooney on Ukraine - but England must navigate Sweden first

The full glory of Aftonbladet’s parody of this newspaper’s ire, reads ‘This lousy eleven brings shame on England for generations to come after horrible, horrible, horrible,  horrible performance.’ What chance is there of life imitating art? Not a lot.

‘Sweden are not France,’ said Steven Gerrard, several times, emphasising a general mood that this is a group game England should win if they harbour serious intent to remain in this tournament beyond Tuesday’s meeting with Ukraine in Donetsk.

France, it seems, were there to be contained, Sweden there to be beaten. Do that and the group could be won, although a draw in the third game should be enough to progress.

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