 I have never thought we should just stick to football, you wrote. The booing stopped. The team were great, but lost the final on penalties. The image of you consoling young Bukayo Saka evoked memories of 1996. Most of us backed the team, but the racist abuse of the players from a toxic fringe underlined why they and you had spoken up. England's women, the Lionesses, won the European Championship, but the men's team never quite made it over that final line.