Neville has urged England’s players to embrace the attention they will get at next summer’s Euros with several matches being hosted at Wembley

Gary Neville remembers when football threatened to come home, and recalls the outpouring of hope and joy across the country as England progressed to the semi-finals of Euro 96. He has inspirational words for this generation heading to Euro 2020, a tournament that England will largely play at Wembley.

By popular acclaim England’s greatest right back, Neville is sitting in a London hotel, in a suite overlooking the Thames, and paints a picture of how England could be for the players next summer. “The streets will be lined from the minute you set off on the coach from your hotel, to the minute you get to the ground,” Neville says. “It’s spine-tingling. There must have been hundreds of thousands from Burnham Beeches [England’s Euro 96