Changing Room — 2:50 PM
His kit was at spot twelve. White training top folded over the back of the chair, England crest on the chest, dark shorts, white socks. Number 26 on a small card beside the hook above the spot.
Last called up. That was fine. Numbers were placeholders until they meant something else.
He changed while the room filled around him. Trent Alexander-Arnold coming in from the right talking to Trippier about something neither of them looked particularly invested in. Henderson on the floor near the far wall working through a hip flexor sequence with the particular focused patience of someone who'd been maintaining the same body for fifteen years. Rashford already changed and sitting with his phone. Kalvin Phillips arrived while Demien was lacing his second boot and dropped his bag on the bench and said nothing to anyone, which seemed to be his natural state.
