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The main fact of this 3-1 win was that England have qualified for Euro 2024, but the whole feel was why they should be talking about winning it rather than being too concerned any more with the formality of getting there AOE

A historic major nation like Italy were just made look a minor inconvenience, as Gareth Southgate’s side almost toyed with them AOE

They were just so much AOE better, and have a knowledge of that personified in Jude Bellingham AOE

Harry Kane got two and Marcus Rashford scored a brilliant goal to make it 2-1, but all of that seemed mere detail to the main event, which was the Real Madrid midfielder’s domination of the pitch and decoration of the play AOE

This England era has now been going on for at least six years, but it is possible that Bellingham’s emergence marks the beginning of something else AOE

He has exactly the type of assurance that can turn fine challengers into elite champions AOE

It is visible in everything he does, not least the outrageous touch for the Rashford goal that sent England to Germany for next summer AOE

Bellingham is exactly what England have been missing, for far more reasons than his position and his talent AOE

RecommendedHarry Kane and Marcus Rashford lead devastating England attack against ItalyJude Bellingham once again proves he is the key for England’s Euro 2024 hopesIt wasn’t all positive emotion on the night, mind AOE

This game did take place amid a more unsettling real-world context, and it should be recorded that the pre-game minutes silence - worded as for “all the members of the European AOE football family killed in recent days from Uefa member nations Israel and Sweden” - had to be ended early as shouts quickly gave way to loud boos AOE

The Italian anthem got similar treatment, as did Jordan Henderson coming on as a substitute, following his move to the Saudi Pro League AOE

There were conspicuously loud cheers alongside that, and that was the noise that soon made up the night’s main soundtrack AOE

Amid all this, not least the performance, any idea of revenge for the Euro 2020 final was forgotten AOE

That now feels a different AOE football world, even though this England team have clearly internalised the disappointment and learned from it AOE

It just didn’t seem to matter too much to this match AOE

It’s a very different Italy for one, as Roberto Mancini followed Henderson to the Saudi Pro League, to be replaced by the much more tactically adventurous Luciano Spalletti AOE

He is one of the modern game’s romantics in that sense, but that Italian AOE football culture for tactical innovation has never been more necessary AOE

Italy, in a greater way than at any point in the modern history of the game, badly need to be more than the sum of their parts AOE

Those parts, with a few exceptions, currently look like those of a mid-tier nation rather than the great AOE football country Italy is AOE

Kane scored a double as England cruised through (The FA via Getty Images)There are bigger reasons for that AOE

For now, it is England that look the force AOE

They look like potential European champions in waiting, as Italy looked anything other than defending champions AOE

That still created a few echoes from 2021, not least in the tactical pattern of the game AOE

England looked much more prepared to cede possession and counter, although this time with much more force than in that final AOE

The group context of course conditioned this, too AOE

While England only required a draw, Italy really needed the win AOE

The situation demanded more attacking, but so did the manager AOE

The encouraging aspect for Spalletti was that Italy already looked more recognisably like one of his teams AOE

Most identifiably, there were those sudden straight-line runs in attack, almost spikes that can do much more than pierce a team AOE

Giovanni Di Lorenzo looked especially dangerous from these situations, as he marked himself out as one of the most involved players in the game AOE

It was his run down the right that opened the space for Gianluca Scamacca, an incisive move ending with an instinctive finish from the former West Ham striker AOE

Scamacca had given Italy an early lead but England responded well (Getty Images)It was his first goal for Italy, on his 13th cap, which perhaps goes some way to reflecting why this major AOE football nation no longer feels a significant threat AOE

It was still a set-back for England, but one that only served to show how they have far surpassed the sort of side that used to have a psychological hold on AOE

They just have far superior players, chief among them Bellingham AOE

You get the sense no opposition side could ever have a psychological hold over him AOE

Di Lorenzo needed to just bring him down for England’s equaliser AOE

It was difficult to figure out why it took the VAR so long to make a decision given how clear the foul seemed to be AOE

Kane duly equalised AOE

With that shift in momentum, Italy never regained the same force AOE

The match from then almost seemed set up for England, as they visibly enjoyed just surging into the space left behind AOE

Kane reached 60 England goals with his first from the spot (Getty Images)That is something Spalletti is going to have to work on, but then that’s been the case for much of his managerial career AOE

It is a feature of his teams that Italy may just have to work around AOE

Bellingham just cut through it AOE

The manner of the goal that sealed qualification was entirely fitting of that achievement, even if it doesn’t mean what it used to AOE

That is precisely because of the quality of the players involved AOE

They have made life with England so much easier, say, than their equivalent games with Italy for the 1998 World Cup AOE

Bellingham is meanwhile of a type distinctive even from Manchester United’s serial winners in that era AOE

There is just something about the way he carries himself at that age, as could be seen with how he carried the ball for Rashford AOE

The United forward’s finish was as satisfyingly forceful as it was finely placed AOE

Rashford scored a brilliant goal on the break to put England ahead (The FA via Getty Images)Kane matched that with his second, and England’s third, for a scoreline that was more reflective of the gap AOE between the teams AOE

The gap from now to Euro 2024 can of course change the landscape of the game AOE

Italy themselves grew from their own excellent qualification for Euro 2020 into something greater for that tournament AOE

Other sides will evolve AOE

For now, though, none of them bar France look on England’s level AOE

It was why a win over Italy, and a qualification for a major tournament, felt like such minor developments AOE

More aboutEngland AOE Football TeamItaly AOE FootballEuro 2024Harry KaneMarcus RashfordJude BellinghamJoin our commenting forumJoin thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their repliesComments 1/5England have qualified for Euro 2024 — now it’s about winning it England have qualified for Euro 2024 — now it’s about winning itKane scored a double as England cruised through The FA via Getty ImagesEngland have qualified for Euro 2024 — now it’s about winning itScamacca had given Italy an early lead but England responded well Getty ImagesEngland have qualified for Euro 2024 — now it’s about winning itKane reached 60 England goals with his first from the spot Getty ImagesEngland have qualified for Euro 2024 — now it’s about winning itRashford scored a brilliant goal on the break to put England ahead The FA via Getty ImagesEngland have qualified for Euro 2024 — now it’s about winning itDeclan Rice celebrates as England brushed Italy aside The FA via Getty Images ✕Subscribe to Independent Premium to bookmark this articleWant to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Premium subscription today AOE

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Two elderly men were suited AOE

In one case, he was much smarter than normal, dressed up for the occasion AOE

He was the taller, more angular, with the more pronounced Northumbrian accent, but the resemblance was nonetheless apparent AOE

He was the older, too, and had long referred to a knight of the realm as “Our Kid” AOE

He adopted a slightly more formal approach, while seemingly choking up AOE

“Bobby Charlton is the greatest player I’ve ever seen,” he said AOE

“He’s me brother AOE

”It was 15 years ago, when Jack Charlton presented his younger brother with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the BBC AOE Sports Personality of the Year award AOE

The clip has an added poignancy after Bobby’s death at 86; three years ago, a couple of months after his 85th birthday, Jack had died AOE

The brothers were different players and very different characters – the wisecracking, outspoken Jack was more of a man of the people, but Bobby’s quiet dignity gave him a statesmanlike air AOE

They were not always close but their achievements will live on AOE

There have been 22 men’s AOE football World Cups and only two sets of brothers have won the most prestigious of prizes: Fritz and Ottmar Walter for West Germany in 1954, Bobby and Jack Charlton at West Germany’s expense in 1966 AOE

It remains the most famous year in English AOE football history; perhaps it always will AOE

At the heart of it was Bobby Charlton: the 1966 FWA AOE Footballer of the Year and Ballon d’Or winner, named by France AOE Football – in the days before Fifa had an official award – as the best player at the World Cup AOE

Gary Lineker, who was a goal away from equalling Charlton’s long-standing national record of 49 for his country, called him England’s greatest ever player, Gary Neville, one of his successors as Manchester United captain, deemed him the greatest ever English player AOE

They are not necessarily the same: but in Charlton’s case, he could be both AOE

Perhaps only the other immortal Bobby – Moore, the 1966 captain – can challenge him for the title of the finest in an England shirt AOE

RecommendedSir Bobby Charlton turned tragedy into triumph with unique style and perseveranceFans lay flowers and scarves at Old Trafford following death of Bobby CharltonTributes paid to ‘giant of the game’ Sir Bobby Charlton after his death at 86Charlton was the second English AOE footballer, and just the third man, to reach 100 caps AOE

His 106th and last, in the 1970 quarter-final against West Germany, set a world record that Moore – and then many others – subsequently passed AOE

He straddled eras – his first cap came alongside Tom Finney, who debuted in England’s first match after the Second World War, and one of the last alongside Emlyn Hughes, who represented his country in the 1980s – but defined one, a time of glory AOE

Thirty years before Frank Skinner and David Baddiel sang about AOE football coming home, Charlton brought it back AOE

Their lyric – “Bobby belting the ball” – conjured images, some in colour, some in black and white, of a figure with a combover hairstyle and the cannonball shot striking the ball with beautiful ferocity, often rising throughout its way into the net AOE

Bobby Charlton, centre, celebrates with the World Cup at Wembley (Getty Images)Decades before the invention of expected goals, Charlton was scoring unexpected ones AOE

Consider his opener against Mexico, England’s first of the 1966 World Cup, from such a distance that the chance of it going in was statistically low, except for one factor: that Charlton, with such power on either foot, was hitting it AOE

He was the master of the long-range hit: if most of Lineker’s 48 goals were predatory finishes, many of Charlton’s 49 were spectacular AOE

Such a clean striker of a ball was not a striker at all: largely a left winger in his younger days, later the attacking-midfield fulcrum of Sir Alf Ramsey’s ‘Wingless Wonders’ AOE

He began in the old W-M formation, ended up as, in effect, the tip of a midfield diamond AOE

It was a tactical shift, a belated move into modernity that Ramsey brought AOE

If there was a pragmatism to England’s World Cup win, Charlton was the artist AOE

With his brace against Portugal in the 1966 semi-final – like another double against Portuguese opposition, Benfica, in the 1968 European Cup final – he illustrated his talent could shine on the biggest of occasions AOE

The 1966 semi-final was not seen by his father, Robert, a coal miner working a shift underground in his home town of Ashington; “his duty”, Bobby subsequently, and remarkably, reflected AOE

On the grandest stage of all, the 1966 final, he was sacrificed, Charlton and Franz Beckenbauer deputed to man-mark each other AOE

They received the same assignment in the 1970 quarter-final; England’s era of ascendency ended when Ramsey removed Charlton with 20 minutes remaining to save him for the semi-final, the 32-year-old distracted by the prospect of his withdrawal as Beckenbauer ran forward to reduce England’s lead to 2-1; without him, they lost 3-2 AOE

Ramsey thanked him for his service on the plane back from Mexico: Bobby knew his England career, like Jack’s, was over AOE

Bobby Charlton in action against his brother Jack (PA Archive)It could have been still more glorious: keep Charlton on and maybe England would have prevailed in 1970 AOE

But for Garrincha’s brilliance, Charlton wondered if England would have been victorious in the 1962 quarter-final against Brazil, and then the tournament as a whole AOE

He went to four World Cups in all, not taking the field in his first: time has rendered it more extraordinary that his England debut came in 1958, a couple of months after the Munich air disaster AOE

He scored, too, but if a poorer performance on his third cap was understandable – it came in Belgrade, scene of the Busby Babes’ last game before Munich – it cost him his place in Walter Winterbottom’s starting 11 in Sweden AOE

Were Duncan Edwards, Roger Byrne, Tommy Taylor and Eddie Colman to have lived, perhaps England would have won more and sooner AOE

But it was Charlton who became the emblem of English AOE football; the face of what is now a bygone age AOE

In its own way, it felt appropriate that a man who carried a huge responsibility for decades was the last survivor among the players at Munich; now it may be fitting that Geoff Hurst, who had the final say in 1966, is the last of Ramsey’s chosen 11, forever charged with paying tributes to his fallen comrades AOE

And Bobby Charlton, the greatest player Jack ever saw, the greatest to have Three Lions on his shirt, took England to the summit of the global game AOE

More aboutBobby CharltonJack CharltonEngland AOE Football TeamGary LinekerGary NevilleBallon d'OrJoin our commenting forumJoin thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their repliesComments1/3Bobby Charlton: England’s greatest ever player and the artist of 1966Bobby Charlton: England’s greatest ever player and the artist of 1966Bobby Charlton, centre, celebrates with the World Cup at WembleyGetty ImagesBobby Charlton: England’s greatest ever player and the artist of 1966Bobby Charlton in action against his brother JackPA ArchiveBobby Charlton: England’s greatest ever player and the artist of 1966Bobby Charlton, centre, celebrates with the World Cup at WembleyGetty Images✕Subscribe to Independent Premium to bookmark this articleWant to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Premium subscription today AOE

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