ENGLAND’S sucess at the Euros will be good news for the whole of football, including Wanderers, says Ian Evatt.

The feelgood factor is sweeping around the country after Wednesday night’s thrilling extra time victory against Denmark, which sets up a Wembley showpiece final against Italy on Sunday.

Evatt had been nonplussed by some of the more conservative tactics employed by Gareth Southgate earlier in the competition but believes he got things spot on in the semi-final.

“I think it’s coming home,” laughed the Wanderers boss. “I thought it was a really good match. I thought tactically as a manager or coach, it was a really good match to analyse.

“I thought both teams’ pressing strategies were very good. England figured it out second half and I think the changes that Denmark made to their team affected them.

“Denmark’s lack of strength in depth affected them because the players coming off the bench weren’t the same level as the first XI, then England took over the game in the last 20 minutes and extra time.”

Evatt has spoken about his admiration for England’s attacking talents, in particular Aston Villa’s talisman, Jack Grealish. And he hopes their example this summer will inspire future generations of footballers to play a similarly adventurous brand of football.

“If the national team is doing well then the rest of the game is thriving, and especially in the English leagues where we play,” he said. “It is great that we’re doing well in international football and it’s also great that we’ve got many, many young and talented players coming through. For a long time that wasn’t always the case.

“As I have said before, we have always been strong defensively but we are now seeing the arrival of that ‘foreign type’ of forward player that we could never normally bring through.

“The Phil Fodens, the technical Jack Grealishes, the Bukayo Sakas, those types that we’ve always looked at Spain, Italy, Brazil, Portugal in envy because they develop these wonderful technicians and we’ve never really been able to do it.

“But we now seem to have a massive conveyor belt of this young talent that can do the things that the other countries can do, and I love to see it.”