By While the hollowness you felt after watching England's 2-1 defeat to Croatia has probably started to be replaced by a mellow, warming sensation of slightly crumpled pride by now, we hate to tell you, but, that void isn't going to be filled for some time.
What you can do though is follow the England fans who stayed behind after the game to vent their ennui by shouting along with the second-most appropriate football-adjacent song of 1996, Oasis' 'Don't Look Back In Anger'.
Despite Noel Gallagher turning down the chance to write an England song and being proved correct in his assessment that football would not, in fact, be coming home, Oasis do have form for soundtracking heart-throttling England losses.
Their plodathon 'Stop Crying Your Heart Out' was set to England's loss to Brazil in the 2002 World Cup in quite similar circumstances, in that England led that game too and were pegged back. Given that the last half-hour of that game entailed England plodding around against 10-man Brazil, searching for inspiration from a 36-year-old Teddy Sheringham, it pretty much summed things up.
If you're still struggling to grasp the strangely yearning melancholy of the day, try to hold yourself together after reading this little note from Southgate to one of the media team.
Oh Gareth.
