England 2, Denmark 1: Euro 2020 final awaits as Gareth Southgate and team exorcise another ghost of tournaments past July 8, 2021 England are in the final of a major football tournament. This is not a drill. Fifty-five years after the nation’s male footballers last contested a trophy, this England team will return to Wembley on Sunday for a Euro 2020 final against Italy with sights set on silverware. It is their reward for a hard-fought semi-final [...]
Euro 2020: Over 9m pints expected to be sold in lead up to England’s semi-final July 7, 2021 Football fans are predicted to buy 6.8m pints during England’s Euro 2020 semi-final against Denmark tonight, with 9.7m expected to be sold throughout the day overall. The British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) said it expects today’s game to draw more crowds into pubs than England’s previous quarter-final match against Ukraine. Pint half empty While [...]
Meet Kasper Hjulmand, the ‘tactical geek, football idealist and world-class coach’ of Denmark plotting England exit in Euro 2020 semi-finals July 6, 2021 A joke doing the rounds in Denmark is that if Kasper Hjulmand stood for election now he would be voted in as prime minister by a landslide. Hjulmand’s rocketing popularity is partly down to his steering of the national team to a Euro 2020 semi-final, where they will meet England at Wembley on Wednesday evening. [...]
Sadiq Khan: Londoners who get their first Covid vaccine can win Euro 2020 final tickets July 6, 2021 The Mayor of London is putting up tickets to the Euro 2020 final that Londoners have a chance to win if they sign up for their first vaccine. As part of a drive to get more Londoners vaccinated, Sadiq Khan is putting up one pair of tickets for Sunday’s final at Wembley and 50 pairs [...]
I’m not leaving this sofa: Takeaway orders soar during England goal-feast July 6, 2021 Football fans made over one million orders on JustEat over the course of Saturday evening as England waltzed past Ukraine in Rome. The match kicking off in the primetime slot of 8pm on a balmy Saturday evening encouraged 2,500 orders being placed per minute. The most popular order was burgers, followed by pizza. While the [...]
Denmark given extra tickets for Euro 2020 semi-final against England after selling out initial 6,500 allocation July 6, 2021 Denmark have been granted extra tickets for tomorrow’s clash with England, meaning there will be almost 8,000 Danes at the Euro 2020 semi-final. Wembley will have a capacity of around 60,000, the biggest crowd for a British sporting event since pre-pandemic times. England supporters will still make up the vast majority as their team look [...]
Euro 2020 success is the boost England needs after the pandemic – but don’t underestimate Denmark, says Alan Shearer July 5, 2021 Former England striker Alan Shearer says Euro 2020 success is the tonic the country needs after the Covid-19 pandemic. England face Denmark in the semi-finals at Wembley on Wednesday amid growing optimism that they can win a first major trophy since 1966. “The country would take off” if England won Euro 2020, Shearer told BBC [...]
At 8pm TONIGHT: Three quarters of Brits expect England to swat Ukraine aside at Euro 2020 – and four in 10 think they’ll go on to lift the trophy July 3, 2021 Three quarters of Britons expect England to take another step towards Euro 2020 glory by beating Ukraine tonight. A poll for City A.M. by OnePulse found that 75.9 per cent predict England to win their quarter-final in Rome this evening. And almost four in 10 are now convinced that England will end 55 years of [...]
England v Ukraine: Why Gareth Southgate needn’t change tack to win Euro 2020 quarter-final against leaky opponents July 3, 2021 England have pootled carefully into the quarter-finals of Euro 2020, where they face Ukraine this weekend. Gareth Southgate has been in sensible Sunday driver mode at the wheel, unwilling to shift through the gears and happy to keep his luxury models parked on the bench. But while it may prove unpopular, the statistics suggest Saturday [...]
Burnley Women agree groundbreaking deal with TikTok to live-stream all home matches on the social media platform July 3, 2021 Burnley FC Women are to become the first UK football team to live-stream all of their home matches on TikTok. The groundbreaking arrangement is part of a wider deal with the social media platform which also sees TikTok become the team’s sleeve sponsor. It is the latest innovation adopted by Burnley FC’s American owners ALK [...]