World Cup 2022: Poland are biggest hurdle for England on trip down memory lane

England have been drawn against Poland so often they almost had a block booking on a hotel near Katowice at one point in the 1990s and today’s latest reunion in the qualifying draw for the 2022 World Cup brings the threat of Robert Lewandowski, the Bayern Munich forward.

England have had issues with Poland before, not least at Wembley in 1973 when Jan Tomascewski kept denying Sir Alf Ramsey’s attackers. In Warsaw in 2012, the hosts failed to close the roof and the pitch was soaked, ensuring a 24-hour postponement.

Poland look England’s most serious road block on the path from group I to Qatar 2022. Hungary will not be easy. England will beware the menace of the exciting 20-year-old attacker, Dominik Szoboszlai, who plays