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8th July 2018
11:58am BST

"At 2.15pm yesterday, my guinea pig died. I took this as a bad omen. And yet, as I sat in Frank Skinner’s living room watching England play Sweden — the team confidence and spirit so clearly there, Harry Maguire’s and Dele Alli’s headers sealing the day, Jordan Pickford a god among men — I started to experience a strange new feeling."He then goes on to conclude that perhaps it was not, perhaps it's all falling into place.
"We still believe, says Three Lions ’98, so yes, all right, I believe: it’s coming home. So much so that by the time I was walking back from Frank’s house after beating Sweden, I had become convinced that my guinea pig’s death was, clearly, a good omen, because his name was Bjorn."
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