The Netherlands stumble into the final of the UEFA National League after beating England in the semi-finals.

When it comes to the baseball bat, splintering bone feeling of missing out on the cigars at major finals, the English and the Dutch share a deep sense of empathy.

When both of these great footballing nations met in the Semi-Final of the UEFA Nations Cup, the bookies made the English the favourites, and that was the right call.

After coming third in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, the Dutch failed to qualify for back-to-back major finals in France (Euro 2016) and Russia (World Cup 2018), whereas England exited at the Semi-Final stage of the 2018 World Cup with Gareth Southgate and Harry Kane looking like a wedding cake couple.