It is July 10 2024, a couple of hours after goals from Harry Kane and Ollie Watkins have taken England past the Netherlands in Dortmund and into the final of Euro 2024. In the Dorint Hotel, the other side of a dual carriageway from the Westfalenstadion, a group of fans, some in England shirts, are sitting in the lobby bar.
They see a couple of us sitting by ourselves at another table and invite us over. It is Kane’s wife, Katie Goodland, and her family, her sister, her parents. They talk about Kane’s life in Munich and their lives in Essex,
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