For those lucky few who don’t currently spend circa 37 minutes a day shouting ‘Alexa, STOOOOOPPPPPP’ in ever-increasing rage, let me take you behind the curtain. Ask her those four magic words and she will say: ‘Oh my giddy aunt, after 55 years of hurt, football really might be coming home at last! And it smells amazing.’She then breaks into song: ‘En-ger-land, En-ger-land, En-ger-land (repeat x4).’It’s stirring stuff. Alexa’s response has already grown more excitable and elaborate as the tournament has progressed, as England have edged closer and closer towards the Promised Land. It was similar during the 2018 World Cup, when Alexa floated the idea of football coming home...And then rubbed our noses in it following England’s defeat by Croatia.

Source: Daily Mail July 09, 2021 21:33 UTC