There is going to be some quality chair luzzing later
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[Football] Italy V England Final.
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Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
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Sneak preview of the penalty shootout 
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
Later? I’ve read there is mayhem in Leicester Square already.
Hampster Gull
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- Dec 22, 2010
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Set off in 5, short bus journey, 5 mins tube and at Wembley Park. On paper at least.…..Will try and get a sneaky beer at Finchley. This is as good as a home match for me and cant wait.
andThe wife is up in london and said its just started to kick off, I hope she is at the front with a chair in each hand.
Lol.
Billy the Fish
Technocrat
Hope she's got a bucket hat and a cheap flag tied round her neck!
Seriously though, any trouble will be minor handbags between groups of ridiculously pissed teenagers. People have been on it in a huge way since this morning, the whole of central London looks like west street on steroids!
It looks like great fun in the pictures I've seen, definitely a young man's game though.
She was up there for a brunch, good knows if she will ever be home....
Wrong-Direction
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- Mar 10, 2013
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England XI: Pickford, Trippier, Walker, Stones, Maguire, Shaw, Rice, Phillips, Sterling, Mount, Kane.
Mistake dropping some pace in Saka?
Mistake dropping some pace in Saka?
Wrong-Direction
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- Mar 10, 2013
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I'm looking down onto lewes road and there's already wankers kicking over signs..
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Doesn’t it seem a bit hubris to criticise Southgate’s starting lineups now? He’s got every one right so far.
BN41Albion
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- Oct 1, 2017
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Pissed up kids with nothing else to do other than wait for the game tonight - twas ever thus (not condoning it)
SweatyMexican
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- Mar 31, 2013
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Once again Southgate has got it wrong.
90 minutes to save his job…
90 minutes to save his job…
Enjoy tonight everyone. These last sixteen months have been arduous, attritional and incredibly surreal. We’ve all been through something that none of us, if we’re honest, had comprehended we would in our lifetime. Thinking back to those supermarket queues, the panic buying, the fear, the running through completely deserted streets on my lunch break - a lunch break away from my own back bedroom. The most surreal experiences of my life.
And yet there’s something equally surreal about tonight. In the same vein, if I’m honest, I don’t think I ever expected to myself to experience England in a tournament final. I was born in 1985, and the first tournament I can remember watching live was Euro 92, under the late Graham Taylor. Since then, my experience of England at tournaments has been defined by dire and spectacular exists. It’s hard to wrap your head around the notion than things could ever end differently. It’s all I know.
Tonight feels different. This team feels different. More likeable than the sum of its parts, more talent in depth than any other England squad I can remember. I feel like this will end differently, that we will win this, and that in itself is perhaps the most surreal feeling I have ever felt.
Whatever happens, tonight is a credit to the job that Gareth Southgate, his team, and everyone involved in the England setup in recent years have done. Reaching a tournament final, particularly in modern formats, is unbelievably difficult. Fluke never comes into it.
Whatever happens, just enjoy tonight. Savour it. For me, tonight is possibly the most important thing that happened in my lifetime that doesn’t really matter. We’ve learned a lot about life and death in the last year or so. Tonight isn’t about that. It’s just a game of football - but the most important game of football this country has played in over half a century, and there is no guarantee any of us will live to see such an occasion again. Drink it in.
FÚCKING COME ON ENGLAND!
And yet there’s something equally surreal about tonight. In the same vein, if I’m honest, I don’t think I ever expected to myself to experience England in a tournament final. I was born in 1985, and the first tournament I can remember watching live was Euro 92, under the late Graham Taylor. Since then, my experience of England at tournaments has been defined by dire and spectacular exists. It’s hard to wrap your head around the notion than things could ever end differently. It’s all I know.
Tonight feels different. This team feels different. More likeable than the sum of its parts, more talent in depth than any other England squad I can remember. I feel like this will end differently, that we will win this, and that in itself is perhaps the most surreal feeling I have ever felt.
Whatever happens, tonight is a credit to the job that Gareth Southgate, his team, and everyone involved in the England setup in recent years have done. Reaching a tournament final, particularly in modern formats, is unbelievably difficult. Fluke never comes into it.
Whatever happens, just enjoy tonight. Savour it. For me, tonight is possibly the most important thing that happened in my lifetime that doesn’t really matter. We’ve learned a lot about life and death in the last year or so. Tonight isn’t about that. It’s just a game of football - but the most important game of football this country has played in over half a century, and there is no guarantee any of us will live to see such an occasion again. Drink it in.
FÚCKING COME ON ENGLAND!
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