While Massimo Cellino spends the summer searching for new players and a man to lead them, football fans will have the World Cup as a welcome distraction from the usual frustrations of waiting for news and trying to imagine what our squad will look like on opening day.

England’s campaign gets under way at the Arena Amazonia on the 14th of June, and if you’re as pessimistic about their chances as I am, it’ll end 10 days later at the Estadio Mineirao. All three of the fixtures England are guaranteed to play have been helpfully laid out in the infographic below, created by car hire specialists Hertz, who’ve also included the latter stages just in case the unthinkable should happen and England’s journey goes into extra time (avoiding penalties, hopefully).

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