No Three Lions fever in sleepy Repino as England prepare for semi-final

There was little fuss in the small coastal town where Gareth Southgate and his players were getting ready for the team’s biggest game since 1990

While the country goes into overdrive preparing for England’s first World Cup semi-final in 28 years, the mood at the team’s base camp in Repino, a coastal town outside St Petersburg, was calm and focused, with few obvious signs that football fever has taken hold among the locals.

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