Bukayo Saka put in a man-of-the-match performance in England’s 1-0 victory over the Czech Republic on Tuesday but there was one curious moment from the Arsenal player.
After Raheem Sterling scored, the Arsenal playmaker was picked up by television cameras taking his shirt off.
There was some confusion over why he’d done that – taking your shirt off is usually reserved for the goalscorer – but Saka was only taking off a thermal layer.
And he revealed that he and his friends had been laughing about the mix up. ‘Hey, I was roasting,’ Bukayo Saka laughed in an interview with England channel Lions’ Den.
‘It was so hot. I had my thermal on. Before that, H [Harry Kane] went down and I tried to take my thermal off.
‘But I thought, what if someone does a quick free-kick and I’m running with my shirt off.
‘So when we scored I just took it off quickly. But yeah the camera was on me and it looked a bit funny.
‘A couple of my boys sent me pictures of it yesterday and I was just laughing at it.
