Sarina Wiegman gave a profoundly wise response when asked a while back if England winning a tournament would be a measure of her success in this country.
‘You cannot say ahead, “We are going to win this”,’ she replied. ‘If you play the best you can play, it’s OK. It could be a final you win. You could lose also.’
Unmistakable echoes, there, of what sports psychiatrist Dr Steve Peters told a Liverpool squad desperate to win the Premier League title, when Brendan Rodgers recruited him in 2013: ‘If you start going into the realm of the uncontrollable with a pre-defined goal then you are going to start to stress.