But rarely are audiences asked to watch one where they relive painful, albeit sporting, memories of their own.

James Graham's Dear England does exactly that, immersing its audience in a fixture in which they already know the result - and instead asking them to focus on the journey.

The hit play depicting Sir Gareth Southgate's revival of the England men’s football team arrived in Norwich this week to a packed-out Theatre Royal.

Dear England is playing in the Theatre Royal until February 7 (Image: Marc Brenner)

The latest iteration builds on the Olivier Award-winning 2023 production, now updated to include the agony of Euro 2024, with the result a heartbreaking yet humour-laced trip down an all-too-familiar memory lane.

David Sturzaker embodies much of what made the country initially so warm to Sir Gareth -........

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