IAN HERBERT: There's now REAL hope that England can catch the USA
msn.comNew York Times said on Sunday that Football's Coming Home — a 'wry anthem trotted out by England fans every time its team get a whiff of a title' — had been booming out of the Wembley speakers. 'Everyone, you will not be surprised, knows the words by heart,' a writer observed.
The $64,000 question for the new European champions now is whether they can reach the Holy Grail and beat the USA at next summer's World Cup.
This matters so much. It was the legend of Brandi Chastain, USA goalscorer in the 1999 World Cup final which saw the game explode Stateside, that Chloe Kelly evoked by whipping off her shirt after scoring the winner against Germany on Sunday.
Megan Rapinoe, the ultimate celebrity of the US game, tweeted 'Outrageous. Wow' after Ella Toone's goal. Yet Toone's club and country team-mate Alessia Russo turned down a Manchester United contract renewal before the Euros, as there is still an acute feeling within the English women's game that facilities are nowhere near what they might be.
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