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Euro dreams were not meant to end like this
England and the Football Association had planned to end the tournament as champions and could have, had they played a different style of football against the Netherlands

REMEMBER the scene in The Matrix where Cypher betrays Morpheus to Agent Smith? He begins killing the members of the Nebuchadnezzar and after unplugging Apoc, moves on to Switch.

Switch is kneeling over the lifeless Apoc and realises she is next. She looks at Trinity and says: “Not like this, not like this,” before dying.

When Lieke Martens’s shot was deflected into England’s goal by Mille Bright, I muttered to myself: “Not like this.”

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