The Age of Gareth lives on: England’s peaks and troughs lead to Switzerland

Despite teetering so close to predictable failure, England are still in Euro 2024. Now they just need to play betterOK. So you’re saying there’s a chance. With 94 minutes of football already played at a clammy and frazzled AufSchalke Arena, with England 1-0 down against Slovakia and about to exit the European Championship in miserable fashion, with the entire Age of Gareth poised to sink into a toxic farewell, the range of possibilities for the next few seconds seemed fairly stark.Fo