Euro 2024 qualifying, England v Australia, Mead set for Arsenal return: football news – as it happened

Beth Mead moved closer to a long-awaited return and Sheffield Wednesday appointed 34-year-old Danny Rohl as their new manager

Jack Grealish has been something of a fringe figure for Manchester City. Can he lift his season by playing well for England? He spoke at the England camp this week.

I have never been off the back of a season like the one I had last time. I felt I was really on top of my game in the second half of it, I was playing in every big game and we had the perfect end to it. You come back in pre-season and it’s a bit like … not ‘What now?’ actually. But do you know what I mean? So, in that sense, yeah, it was a bit difficult.

The big moments went against us. It’s a tough one to take but we certainly competed for long spells. It is very difficult to win here but in the circumstances it was near enough impossible.

I need to be very careful what I say. I think everyone from a Scotland point of view, whether you were on the pitch, in the stand or in the dugout, it just felt like we weren’t getting a decision. Fifty-fifty balls, going in for fair challenges and not getting them. It made it extremely difficult against a word-class team to try and get anything from the game. On the disallowed goal, McGinn added: ‘He changed it (the decision) in the game, which is the frustrating thing.

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