Six minutes in, a penalty’s awarded!
A collective cheer and then the nation teeters,
Caught between the possibility
Of painful hope and previous could-have-beens.
An awkward miss, reminders of the past,
And here we go again. ‘So soon?’ we groan…
But VAR and trailing legs, a gift
of grace, and this time Kane dispatches it
And in that crazy moment England dreams.

Whilst writing this three more goals went in… Who knows how this will end.
(17.06.26)

© Ben Quant 2026
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