Euro 2022 reminds us that international tournaments are brilliant, England are off to excellent start - The Warm-Up

THURSDAY'S BIG STORIES The Euros Is Go! Ad/> A continent waited in hope. A continent dared to dream. And then a continent got what it was praying for.

Yes, the little car was back, bouncing over the Old Trafford turf to deliver to the referee who, for just one moment, appeared to be a giant. TransfersSterling set for Chelsea move after agreeing personal terms — reports15 HOURS AGO We do apologise. That should be «the Trafford turf».

UEFA, in their infinite wisdom, have decided that the best way to distinguish Manchester United's home ground from the Manchester City Academy Stadium is by focusing on the metropolitan borough. One of those solutions that makes perfect logical sense, yet would never have occurred to anybody outside the strange world of international football tournaments. The strange, brilliant world of international football tournaments.

In a way, all these little oddities are just as important to the tournament feeling as the hype and the history. Tournament football is football that's been at the dressing-up box. «Old Trafford» hosts ordinary football matches, the kind that begin without a little car.

And nobody that was at the game or watching on TV could mistake this for an ordinary game. /> The crowd of 68,871 set a new record for the women's Euros, one that will stand the test of time, or at least until the final at Wembley. The crowd were loud enough that England's players, hopped up on victory and on Sweet Caroline, couldn't hear Sarina Wiegman's post-match debrief.