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Narrated by James Marriott
In the capital Mason Greenwood will now call home, another precocious English footballer was all but handed the keys to the city on Saturday. His constituents bellowed out the song they have repurposed for him. In stoppage time he scored his fifth goal in four games, completing a comeback from 1-0 behind to a 2-1 triumph. It was his home debut and a special occasion already because it showed off the remodelled stadium’s newest, state-of-the-art gadget: the retractable roof.
Real Madrid’s Englishman appreciated the new-roofed Santiago Bernabeu’s acoustics. The noise that greeted his late goal felt like “the loudest I’ve ever heard on a football field,” he reckoned. The chorus of Hey Jude, sung in his honour, made 20-year-old Jude Bellingham want “to turn
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