Lionesses saw off an entire nation – now England can believe it’s coming home

It is the spectacle that three in every four people in the country have never had the privilege to witness. Yes, England are in the World Cup final. Savour that reality for a moment. Let the full resonance be absorbed. 1966 and All That, Geoff Hurst called his memoir, in reference to the single most memorable achievement in English sport and all the mythology it inspired. It happened 33 years before Ella Toone, Alessia Russo or Lauren Hemp, the three heroines of a convulsive night in Sydney, wer