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Southgate's squad for the Euro 2024 qualifiers away to Italy in Naples and against Ukraine at Wembley is heavy on loyalty to the England team that performed creditably in Qatar despite falling short once more.

The other such darling, Wales, appears for the first time in 64, when it played creditably in a quarterfinal in 1958, falling, 1-0, to Brazil and budding icon Pelé, then just 17.

It’s crucial to the culture that complex work be performed creditably at every level, and crucial to the local economy too.

It played the role of summer’s eve, and it performed creditably as an introduction to the season of swelter.

It was a relatively narrow victory margin Scotland would later regret as they performed creditably to remain unbeaten against holders Brazil and Yugoslavia only to go out on goal difference.