Proper England: Selfless. Defiant.Hard-working.And champions

For some reason, as Chloe Kelly's penalty hits the net and the England players explode across the pitch like streaks of white light, as Sarina Wiegman and Arjan Veurink embrace on the touchline, as England fans clutch each other in the stands, the eye is drawn to Khiara Keating of Manchester City.

- Jonathan Liew

Keating has not played a minute for England at this tournament. In fact, she has never played a minute for England at all. In fact, there was not the remotest possibility that she would play a minute for England at this tournament, and she knew this all along.

Her entire Euros has consisted of training, travel and watching football from a hard bench. And yet at the moment of victory, nobody celebrates harder than England's third goalkeeper.

It's Keating who is one of the first of the substitutes to reach the huddle of white shirts on the pitch, Keating being hoisted aloft by the second-choice goalkeeper, Anna Moorhouse, Keating doing a funky dance in front of the fans, Keating beaming behind Leah Williamson and Keira Walsh as the trophy is lifted amid a fanfare of ticker tape and smoke.

This is very clearly a triumph in which she feels just as invested and included as any other player, a triumph that is hers too, as surely as if she had saved the match-winning penalty. And as the dust settles on Sunday's epic final, perhaps this little snapshot of perfect unity gives an insight into just how England managed to triumph over the odds.

"This team shows exactly what it's like to be English," Chloe Kelly said after Sunday's final, riffing on a theme that many of her teammates have also taken up in recent weeks.