Jude Bellingham: Who else! We take a look at the growing legend of our proud son of the Black Country
It will be at least a few more days, hopefully a fortnight, before the full significance of Jude Bellingham’s Slovakia wonder strike becomes clear.
For now, it stands as an act of salvation, a moment of near divine intervention which saved England’s Euro 2024 bacon and Gareth Southgate’s tenure from a most ignominious end.
A mere 90 seconds or so remained inside Gelsenkirchen’s AufSchalke Arena on Sunday evening and England appeared out of ideas and out of time, not that Southgate’s men appeared to have too many of the former in the first place.
Then Kyle Walker hurled a throw into the box, Marc Guehi rose to flick it on and…you saw what happened next. One action of supreme athleticism and in the blink of an eye the mood transformed.
“Who else?!” roared Jude Bellingham in celebration. Who else, indeed. No two words better sum up the supreme confidence of a player who looked destined for the biggest stage from the moment he first started kicking a ball around the fields at Hagley Primary school.
Now another chapter has been added to the growing legend of this proud son of the Black Country.
