For those who came in late, England did what it usually does when it starts to win a football championship and convince itself it is the best in the world, rather than lucky and a bit rubbish. It always loses, and when it does it looks for a scapegoat and in this case, it centred on the three black players in the team after they failed to score during the penalty shootout.

If England had won, the white team captain would have been canonised and the black team members ignored, but they didn’t.

Johnson told lawmakers that it was time to act after three Black members of England's national team were targeted by racist abuse on social. The government plans to add online racism to the list of offenses for which fans can be barred from matches, he said.

"What we are doing is taking practical steps to ensure that the football banning regime is changed so that if you are guilty of racist abuse online on football, then you will not be going to the match", Johnson said during his weekly prime minister's questions session. "No ifs, no buts, no exemptions, no excuses."

Courts are allowed to issue banning orders if a fan is convicted of a "relevant offence" linked to a match, including crimes such as disorderly behaviour or possession of weapons.

All this is a turn up for the books as many UK racists believed that Brexit made their views constitutionally correct and comments about other nations “free speech”.  Ironically, such a move in Europe would be impossible as it would be thrown out by the European Courts.