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It's fill-yer-boots time at Wembley tonight as England host San Marino, the team for whom the word 'minnows' was surely invented.

The last time the Three Lions played San Marino – a 24-mile square microstate on the Italian peninsula – they waltzed to an 8-0 victory. That was a World Cup qualifier in March 2013. In the eighteen months since San Marino have played eight more fixtures, winning none, losing all and conceding 39 goals. They did score one, however, Alessandro Della Valle finding the net in the 5-1 thrashing against Poland. It was San Marino's 20th international goal in almost a quarter of a century.

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