In just under two years, England overhauled their previous best of 444, at the same ground, to beat Australia to pulp and take the series. ©Getty
"They just might, you know."
If you enjoy sport - casually, viscerally - then that statement means something to you. It comes up when the faint outline of the implausible, previously unthinkable, appears on the horizon. It would have been uttered amid the pained groans behind the Tunisia goal in the Volgograd Arena on Monday night, just before Kieran Trippier's injury-time corner eventually found its way to Harry Kane.
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