Bruising styles, yodelled anthems and fan fever: Euro 2020 feels like the real thing | Barney Ronay

The tournament’s opening week has calmed fears of fatigued football and showcased engaged, hungry and energised players

There was a moment in Rome on Wednesday night that seemed to capture the unusually fevered pitch of Euro 2020’s opening week. As the TV camera crawled along the faces of the Italian players before kick-off against Switzerland, the feed lingered, sensually, on the magnificent spectacle of full-bore, mid-anthem Giorgio Chiellini.

Chiellini is both a very bad and a very loud singer. But his performances of Il Canto degli Italiani are still the stuff of legend: eagerly awaited and jealously ranked and pored over by Chiellini ultras, Chiellini stans.

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