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The teams are out! The anthems play. England are in first-choice white, while San Marino wear a gorgeous one-off kit of orange, white and red, celebrating 90 years of the San Marino FA, and the country’s old flag. The fog that was hanging around for most of the day has thankfully lifted, though apparently one of the floodlights is only working at a quarter of its capacity, so it’s swings and roundabouts. We’ll be off in a minute!
This match is as jeopardy-free as it’s possible for competitive football to get. San Marino are the lowest-ranked country in the European qualifiers. They’ve lost all nine of their Group I fixtures, shipping 36 goals and scoring just the one. They’ve played England on seven previous occasions, England winning by a cumulative score of 42-1. But hey, San Marino will always have Davide Gualtieri and those seven seconds. Everything’s relative, so in the grand scheme of things, we can probably chalk this rivalry up as a draw.
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