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What's behind Bellingham's struggles with England at Euro 2024?

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Jude Bellingham turns 21 on Saturday and already a seasoned international with England, a Champions League winner with Real Madrid and an undisputed member of the new wave of superstars ready to dominate a post-Lionel Messi/Cristiano Ronaldo football landscape. He is the archetypal box-to-box, goal-scoring midfielder, a supremely confident and rounded youngster who projects maturity beyond his age and is nothing short of a marketing agency's dream. Golden Boy? That's Bellingham all over.

But for the first time in his prodigious career, the storm clouds are gathering.