England finally win a World Cup

There is no asterisk needed here. England's cerebral palsy football team had never won this tournament before, and they went and did it in a final against the United States, a side that knows exactly how to make a final feel like one.

Sam Dewhirst and David Porcher got the goals that settled it, according to BBC Sport, which is about as much as is confirmed from the match itself right now. No minute-by-minute, no attendance figure, no breakdown of how the game actually played out. What is confirmed is the only thing that will matter in five years: England are champions, for the first time, in Atlanta.

A final most of the country never saw

Cerebral palsy football, part of the wider disability football landscape organised for athletes with conditions affecting movement and coordination, does not get live BBC One coverage or a Match of the Day highlights package. It gets a short report, filed the day after, and a headline that most people will scroll past on their way to a Premier League score.

That is precisely why this result deserves more than a passing mention. A first World Cup win, against the Americans, in a final decided by two players whose names most casual fans have never heard before today, is the kind of story that mainstream football coverage tends to file under 'also happened' rather than 'led the show'.

Why the name recognition gap matters

Sam Dewhirst and David Porcher will not be trending alongside whichever Premier League forward scored twice at the weekend. That is the nature of disability football's media footprint in this country: smaller budgets, smaller crowds, smaller headlines, even when the achievement itself is exactly as big as any England team winning a World Cup final.

The gap between the size of the achievement and the size of the coverage is the actual story here. England have not won many World Cups of any description. This one happened in Atlanta, against the United States, and it deserves to be known by more than the people who already follow the sport closely.

What comes next

There is no confirmation yet of how England will mark the win beyond the result itself, nor details on squad depth or the tournament's wider bracket. What there is, though, is a first: a genuine, first-time World Cup title for an England national team, won by players most of the country couldn't name an hour ago.

That should change.