A noisy cluster of Turkey fans chose to accessorise their red replica shirts with plastic souvenir centurion's helmets, complete with face guards and a fetching red crest of imitation feathers. Turkey were nominally the home team but the marketing department must have won the argument on the Azzurri's big day. The red shirts of their fans popped out from the blue seats in the north west corner of the stadium. Maybe it is the tournament that never should have been but only football can lift the spirits like this. Re-live the drama from the tournament's curtain-raiser with all the live updates from Sportsmail's DANIEL DAVIS...

Source: Daily Mail June 11, 2021 17:01 UTC