Covid feels like another lifetime ago but for many football fans in this country the feeling of normality returning came at Euro 2020. With supporters packing the stands once again, the feelgood factor nearly swept England all the way to the major silverware that has continued to elude them since 1966.

There were heroes everywhere you looked throughout Gareth Southgate’s side - Everton goalkeeper Jordan Pickford, of course, being one.

But perhaps no England player captured the imagination more, or attracted as much adulation, as the man who is now playing his club football alongside Pickford for the Blues.

OPINION

OPINION

Jack Grealish started only one game for the Three Lions at the delayed tournament, which had been put back a year because of the coronavirus pandemic, but that did not stop him from becoming the poster boy for the team and country.

It was partly because of his...