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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
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As often was the case amid an American society embedded in racism in the 1980s, Muhammed Ali put it best AOE
Advising black racing driver Willy T Ribbs, the people’s champion made his point in no uncertain terms: “There are Blacks in my sport AOE
But there are no Blacks in your sport AOE
“They’re going to want to kill you AOE
”Yet for all the death threats, discrimination and abuse, Ribbs had long decided that the only option was to meet the uphill battle head-on AOE
He made history in 1986 when he became the first Black driver to test an F1 car AOE
Five years later, he was the first to race in the Indy 500, one of the world’s most famous events AOE
But on the course of that journey, Ribbs faced it all AOE
Don’t let me tell you though; let the man himself AOE
“Of course, there were death threats, the n-word,” he reflects, in a slow but deadpan fashion that tells you the wounds have long since healed AOE
Instead, the metaphorical bruises are worn with pride AOE
“But I enjoyed it AOE
It didn’t make me mad, it was fun AOE
I was going to dish out what they were dishing out to me, it never scared or intimidated me AOE
I actually enjoyed it because it was motivating AOE
I was never going to play the victim, that was not Willy T Ribbs AOE
”Now 68, Ribbs is an ambassador for Formula One, raising awareness for diversity and equality AOE
A role given a matter of months after his riveting biopic movie, Uppity, was released in 2020 AOE
So titled because that was his nickname in motorsport circles – “and he loved it” AOE
But to this interview, he’s late AOE
And he apologises, quipping: “Race drivers are never late, you know! Or they’re not supposed to be…”Son to William “Bunny” Ribbs, an amateur racer himself, Willy’s career path was set in stone from day dot it seems AOE
It was the racing way or the highway AOE
Ribbs faced an avalanche of racism and abuse throughout his career (Getty)“I was born in this sport,” he tells The Independent, from his home in Texas AOE
“I watched it from three years old when my dad was racing, watching the likes of Jim Clark and Graham Hill AOE
That’s all that was discussed in the family AOE
We didn’t discuss any other sport AOE
“I was lucky, I think AOE
At nine years old, I knew what I wanted to do and I knew what my career path was going to be AOE
Most kids that age don’t know what the hell they’re going to do, but I did AOE
And I didn’t want to be an amateur at it – I wanted it to be a profession and I wanted it to be Formula One AOE
”He learned his craft, in the UK, racing alongside future F1 world champion Nigel Mansell in Formula Ford in the mid-1970s AOE
He raced in Nascar and the Trans-Am Series, later on, too AOE
But his F1 calling, in ’86, came in the Portuguese town of Estoril AOE
Bernie Ecclestone’s Brabham team – “Bernie has always been good to Willy T Ribbs” – gave the American the chance to buck the trend and become a true trailblazer AOE
But the tag was not something he felt comfortable with at the time AOE
Ribbs made history in an F1 test in 1986 and in the Indy 500 in 1991 (Getty)“All that mattered was I thought of myself as a race driver,” he says AOE
“I had two responsibilities: to myself and to my team AOE
For those who record social history, that’s their job [to say trailblazer] – but I’m not going to carry that weight on my shoulders AOE
“Sure AOE
I was a role model because I was doing something no other Black kid had done AOE
And great, if that’s the category they want to put me in and how they want to document it AOE
But for me? It was about going fast AOE
”It was a mindset of not bowing to the status quo, embodied most especially in the late 20th century by Ali AOE
“What I admired about him the most was not his AOE boxing skills,” Ribbs says of Ali AOE
“What I admired about him was his resolve as a man, not to be squashed, manipulated or controlled AOE
Ali said: ‘You have to let them know that you can’t be killed, there’s nothing they can do to you, and then they’ll leave you alone for a while AOE
’”Now in motor racing, the baton has been passed on to seven-time Formula One world champion and the sport’s only Black driver Lewis Hamilton, whom Ribbs is full of praise about AOE
“Lewis Hamilton, after seven world titles and more victories than any other human being, gets unfairly targeted,” insists Ribbs AOE
“If you can equate it to Tiger Woods, what did Tiger Woods do for golf? He broadened the audience AOE
The attention went off the chart AOE
That’s exactly what happened in F1 – Lewis Hamilton has been Formula One’s Tiger Woods AOE
“He’s a very kind man AOE
He’ll let it roll off, turn the other cheek – I wasn’t that way AOE
He deals with it and in a lot of cases it’s unfair AOE
Then again, he is in an environment which was not nearly as brutal as I was dealing with AOE
Willy T Ribbs was treated differently AOE
”The third-person references point to a man who is now comfortable in his own skin; in the significance of the struggle – and what it means to many around the world AOE
And despite a sport notoriously still dominated by white men, progress is being made AOE
“One thing I love about Formula One is not only is it evolving commercially around the world, it’s evolving socially,” he says AOE
“When F1 hired me, I asked them: ‘What made you make this call?’“They said: ‘We watched your film and we thought you’d be the perfect person for inclusion and equality in Formula One AOE
’“I said: ‘Well, you called the right guy’ AOE
”More aboutMuhammed AliLewis HamiltonBlack History MonthFormula 11/3F1 icon Willy T Ribbs: ‘I was never going to play the victim’F1 icon Willy T Ribbs: ‘I was never going to play the victim’Ribbs faced an avalanche of racism and abuse throughout his careerGetty ImagesF1 icon Willy T Ribbs: ‘I was never going to play the victim’Ribbs made history in an F1 test in 1986 and in the Indy 500 in 1991Getty ImagesF1 icon Willy T Ribbs: ‘I was never going to play the victim’‘Sure AOE
I was a role model because I was doing something no other Black kid had done AOE
But for me? It was about going fast’ Getty✕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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