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While Thomas Tuchel's senior side laboured through June's matches against Andorra and Senegal with abject performances a year out from the start of the 2026 World Cup, Lee Carsley's Young Lions could provide potential stars and hope for that campaign.The under-21's boss was dealt the blow of losing two key figures on the even of Thursday's opener against the Czech Republic, with striker Liam Delap and midfielder Jobe Bellingham withdrawing from the squad following recent transfers.

Delap joined Chelsea from Ipswich Town, while Bellingham signed for Borussia Dortmund from Sunderland in big-money moves. Both will instead feature at the Fifa Club World Cup in the United States.Even without the pair, England's 23-man squad in Slovakia will have a total worth of around £428.2m.While Tuchel's men have more questions around them than answers, there is much more optimism for Carsley's talented youngsters.

BBC Sport takes a closer look.The England Under-21 side of 2023 was a special one, but Carsley has challenged his new-look 2025 side to be even better.

"It's difficult to compare [2023 and 2025] at the minute," he told BBC Sport in March.

"We are looking at the last squad knowing what they did. To win six games and not concede any goals [in the entire tournament], I think that will be very hard to recreate. But it's a goal and it's a target.Mike Andrews, who leads National Trading Standards' e-crimes unit and was involved in the investigation into Hunter and the Ticket Queen, told the BBC how he joined the early morning raid on the anonymous townhouse in a tree-lined north London street where Hunter ran his operation.

Upstairs was a room filled with PCs, whirring away, buying and selling tickets. "It was obviously an operation that ran pretty much 24/7," Mr Andrews said. They also found rolls of tickets in seat-number order for events such as Lady Gaga concerts and the Harry Potter play, and multiple credit cards.Reselling tickets for profit for live performances in the UK is not illegal. But Hunter and Chenery-Woods were convicted of using fraudulent practices to get around restrictions - such as limits on the number of tickets an individual can buy.

They pretended to be lots of different people, using lots of different credit cards, when they bought the tickets from companies such as Ticketmaster, See Tickets or AXS - which are known as primary ticketing websites.The Ticket Queen used the details of family members, including a dead relative, to buy tickets, as well as using the names and addresses of dozens of people in and around the town of Diss, Norfolk where her business operated.