When did England last have a frontline this good?



In Harry Kane and Raheem Sterling they have two unquestionably world-class forwards. Even more importantly than that, they have two men at the peak of their game, who bring the best out of each other, and who have that natural instinctive combination that marks out the best pairs.



When Kane drops deep, Sterling runs beyond him. When Kane runs down the channel, Sterling gets into the box to convert, as he did for the third goal on Saturday. When Sterling bursts through the middle, Kane waits wide for the pass, as he did to score the second here. If one doesn’t get you, the other will. And if you throw everyone towards trying to stop them, then you leave Jadon Sancho dangerously unmarked at the far post, as Kosovo did twice.



Yes, England have had two top strikers in the past, but never two peaking together, and never in a partnership quite like this. When Kane emerged in 2014, Wayne Rooney was already...