‘We’re waiting until people have fallen off the edge of the cliff’

Is football failing to psychologically support players?

As Bukayo Saka stepped up to the spot to take what would prove to be the final penalty of Euro 2020, Jordon Ibe might have been forgiven a wistful glance towards the TV. Five years beforehand, Ibe was the tricky winger who seemed set to make his mark with England. It could have been him staring at Gianluigi Donnarumma, a nation’s hopes resting on his sh…