SCREAMS fill the air, tears flow and beer rains down to ecstatic chants of “It’s coming home” — and I couldn’t be more proud.
Our wonder women have done it again.
Euros champions for the second time in a row after defeating Spain and putting to bed our World Cup heartache from 2023.
Football is called “the beautiful game” — but this tournament has, at times, been anything but that for our brave Lionesses.
Even the most die-hard fans will, at some point, have thought: “We’re surely done now . . .”
But we have kept bouncing back. Whether it was a last-minute equaliser, an extra-time winner or heart-stopping penalty shootout.
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It’s been a campaign of resilience, ugly at times, and we’ve had to fight.
The Lionesses were the tournament’s most passionate team and were rightly rewarded.
Now they enter the history books as England’s most successful football team and the nation will never forget the euphoria they have gifted us.
There are moments I’ll never forget — such as the Sweden shootout when Lucy Bronze fired a simply sublime penalty into the roof of the net in the 13th of 14 kicks. It made me think: “They will always find a way.”
Now they have brought football home yet again and the beauty is, this isn’t the end. Now we want to complete the set with the 2027 World Cup.
That’s the wonderful thing about our Lionesses, they are never done.
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