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I hate the "It's coming home" song, drives me up the wall...but I've always taken it as a hopeful 'coming home to the place that invented the game and exported it to the world' type thing rather than anything arrogant about it. New Order FTW always anyway🙂

Errr…Sir Alf Ramsey would like a word !!! Kinda agree on the performance , whilst I was nervous all the way through I don’t think the team were. I remember in Russia whenever we played it out from defence I was always expecting disaster but they have grown into that. Weren’t as fluent as against Ukraine but much better opposition and we dominated them, albeit without any comfort blanket at any time. Thought our first goal was fantastic, might have been an own goal but Only cos he had no option but to try and play it. As for the penalty, there was contact (probably off two Danes as well) and I’ve seen them given against us for less. And when Kane went down in first half looked a penalty to me but was given as diving ? So no worries about that . Final will be nerve-shredding though , Italy are a step above the Danes but I think we can play better, get that Sterling /Shaw link up going more than it did last night .

Seeing Gareth let his emotions go in front of the crowd was one of those moments eh. A competent decent man who puts our politicians to shame. A team that was getting booed by a section of its own fans at the start of the tournament kept me up to the early hours of the morning with all the fireworks going off and people roaming the streets cheering every time they met other people roaming the streets cheering. Can imagine the scenes to come on Sunday 🥳😅

What a night. Bar from the 10-15 minutes that they had and got the goal, we were on top of that game. The facts were we had over 20 shots, 60% of the possession and there was really only one team going to score, it was (thankfully) just about when we were going to. The pen was soft but a pen regardless. We'd be spitting feathers if it was against us but that is football. The Danes wouldn't have give 2 shits either. Have you ever seen an England team confidently hold the ball like they do, not panic like they do, and pass out from the back to create multiple chances like they do? I recall Souness saying, he thinks we'll win it even if its not attractive football....well, I must be blind because the patterns of passing and how they break down a team is an absolute joy to watch and behold. Sterling was incredible and they allowed Kane to float which meant he was critical to making many spaces and potential chances. Walker had a blinder too whilst i've never seen Shaw with so much energy and desire to be positive and run at defenders. No one said it was gonna be easy, we couldn't expect to batter a team that was ranked the highest in the world on our side of the draw, especially with the Eriksen momentum they had built up too. But we did it. We went and bloody did it. Surreal and special moment for the whole country. Make the most of this as Sunday will come around before you know it!! ❤️ One more thing though....this man deserved credit before we got into the final, heck even the semi-final. Mad how it needs these things to happen for him to get the credit he deserves. Enjoy these times whilst we have the best manager we have ever had for England.

Your right Phil, the original meaning was because it was Euro 96 and the tournament was being hosted in England. It's more like you say a hopeful ode and nod to football coming back to the land it was made famous and created. I'm sure you as many others are more than aware of this. The arrogance from the media and fans in general is the thing that bothers me. Not anyone from this forum, just want to clarify. 😁