It was two weeks ago, at a stadium in Hamburg, when an issue that haunts the FA's stewardship of the England football team but which has remained largely in the shadows, burst into the public domain for the first time.
Mark Bellingham, the father of Real Madrid superstar Jude Bellingham and rising talent Jobe Bellingham, confronted Dortmund sporting director Sebastian Kehl in the tunnel at St Pauli’s Millerntor-Stadion at the end of a game in which Jobe had been substituted at half-time on his debut.
