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Dear England S01E02
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00:02And England, now reach out and touch it!
00:11England, you have no purchase.
00:13Never, never before.
00:30Gareth Southgate hoops to the skies and offers up a word.
00:37And England win on penalties!
00:53Suddenly, suddenly all things seem possible!
01:01Ooooooh!
01:12Shoot!
01:13Big shoot!
01:20You're gonna climb on a penalty shoot town, Bill!
01:23I don't believe it! It's unbelievable!
01:24It's unbelievable!
01:26She's a penalty whisperer!
01:27Let's go, one ball, and go!
01:34There we go!
01:38Harry Maguire got up biggest!
01:42And Maguire bounces it in!
01:47It's Lingard's cross!
01:49It's Deliani's finish!
01:52For Justin Thun...
01:53Oh, my!
01:55Stop from Pickford!
01:57The Three Lions are dreaming indeed!
02:07We're gonna beat Croatia quite easily
02:09and then go on to a bit of the World Cup.
02:17It is the first World Cup semi-final for England since 1990!
02:2290 minutes for these young England players to write their name in history.
02:28It's coming home!
02:28It's coming home!
02:30It's coming home!
02:30It's coming home!
02:32Gareth Southgate and the boys have done a fantastic job!
02:36It's coming home!
02:37It's coming home!
02:38It's coming home!
02:40It's coming home!
02:40It's coming home!
02:51It's coming home!
02:59It's coming home!
03:21It's coming home!
03:22It's coming home!
03:23Well, I mean, just two years after the horror of losing to Iceland, they've done so much to restore England's
03:28reputation and reconnect the purpose to their football team.
03:31But now they've done success, right, so there's also a question that's going to happen.
03:35Will we ever get a better chance to reach the World Cup final than we've just had?
03:50Southgate had history in his hands, and the first World Cup final since 1966 in his sight.
03:56The country's expectation, right, is to reach fever pitch after England took the league.
04:00But that Luka Modric, I mean, he took control of the game, and Southgate's men faded.
04:04As the game wore on, they just were physically and mentally trying.
04:07Pickers kicked the ball long 40 times in total instead of working it up the field.
04:12And no, couldn't find a white shirt to save his life.
04:16Harry Kane, he lost the ball a total of 21 times.
04:20As history has often proven, England are, psychologically, for some reason, very vulnerable to going up and then bedding down
04:30for the age-old long period of agony.
04:32The whole team, exhausted, reverted to playing it safe under pressure, less free, less fearless.
04:37Okay, all right.
04:38Well, a lot to unpack and learn from. Thanks. Anyone else?
04:41Without a portion in blame. And this is, with respect, Pippa, I really don't mean that.
04:46But the amount of time we spent on the warm and fuzzy stuff, which I'm not against.
04:50But why then, in the end, was it the mindset that gave in?
04:53It doesn't mean the work was wasted, Mike. It means we got further than any other team in decades.
04:58But learning how to sustain your psychological resilience over a whole tournament, that takes time.
05:03Yeah, and who knows?
05:04It takes more work on this, not less.
05:06If we spent more time drilling the lads in midfield on how to cope with Modric and co, then maybe...
05:10Okay. All right. Okay.
05:12What would they be in your picture in a press now, Pippa? The penalty whisperer or whatever you...
05:18Hey. That's not me, okay? I did not put that out there.
05:23No, we not. I have not, and I would not put myself in the spotlight. Ever.
05:29Okay. If I'm wrong, I'm sorry.
05:35Hey, look. The good news. We all came in here, unexpected, last minute, stitched something together at high speed, and
05:41look what we did.
05:42Now we have the time to begin building our New England proper tactics, style of play, culture.
05:54Remember, this is a longer story, and we're actually ahead, ahead of the clock.
05:58It's the World Cup in four years. That's the goal.
06:01We'd hoped that one would be reaching the quarterfinals, act two, semis, act three, victory, but we did one better.
06:07And more than that, the feeling in the country.
06:11We should be proud and confident now, going forward. Something is working, and we're ahead.
06:27Look, that's what I got testy back there. We all just... we care.
06:33I care, Mike. Us lot. The back room. We don't go out on the pitch to the fans. It's for
06:41the gaffer and the players.
06:42Gareth asked us to share in it all, as a team. Otherwise, I'd never...
06:45Gareth's a nice guy. Too nice. But what's best for him is to be the figurehead. To take the glory
06:54and him alone. Because he sure as hell will take the blame when it all goes to shit.
07:03I will shortly leave the job that it has been the honour of my life to hold. To serve the
07:08country I know.
07:12Good afternoon. The time has come to give strong leadership and to change this country for the better. The British
07:19people have had enough of waiting.
07:21Even in the darkest moments, we can see the bright future ahead.
07:41From this evening, I must give the British people a very simple instruction. You must stay at home.
07:48In the UK, 798 people have now been infected. Up by 209.
07:53There have been 11 COVID-related deaths.
07:54Government are determined to clamp down early.
07:5653 reported deaths across the UK.
07:58Record-breaking 9...
07:59Leading to the suspension of the Premier League until 820.
08:02Well above the capacity of NHS in passage 10.
08:05More deaths.
08:06Over 1,000 more restrictions yet.
08:09World sport has come to a standstill.
08:12I hope in the years to come, everyone will be able to take pride in how they responded to this
08:18challenge.
08:19And those who come after us will say the Britons of this generation were as strong as any.
08:25But the attributes of self-discipline, of quiet, good-humoured resolve and of fellow feeling still characterise this country.
08:35The pride in who we are is not a part of our past. It defines our present and our future.
08:44We should take comfort that while we may have more still to endure, better days will return.
08:51We will be with our friends again. We will be with our families again. We will meet again.
08:58Till we have built Jerusalem In England's green and pleasant land
09:24Feels almost, I don't know, like a church.
09:28That sort of hush.
09:30Still, Pele always said Wembley was the cathedral of football.
09:36Arguably, it's, you know, your stuff about stories, almost perfect in a way.
09:39The world of football returning here, in pilgrimage.
09:44It really is coming home.
09:47It's confirmed. We would host it here instead.
09:51Postponed for a year, but yes.
09:53The plan to share the Euros, different countries, is a nice idea, lovely in fact, but with Covid never going
09:58to happen.
10:00UEFA's asked us to pretty much host the lot.
10:07Hosting.
10:08It adds expectation, doesn't it?
10:12It demands something.
10:17And so I just wanted to say that.
10:21You just wanted to say...
10:23That the universe has conspired to give us the best opportunity to end this, Gareth.
10:29Home advantage.
10:32End this quest to bring it back, to restore something in us, in England.
10:38And if that means a change of emphasis, yes, culture, happiness, is everyone okay, but now ruthlessly towards winning.
10:49It's always been about winning, Greg.
10:53The year's everyone okay stuff that's always only ever been about getting the best out of them.
10:58But we set a timetable and the Euros are only out to...
11:02Too much too soon, mate.
11:05Undo some of the...
11:05I know, I know, but events and all that...
11:10Events.
11:10Tariff.
11:12Tariff.
12:59Tournament at home. So what about training? A camp of sorts? That's possible.
13:05Yeah, complicated. Might have to bubble, sort of, as a squad. Not simple, but...
13:09And fans in the stands, or...?
13:11Limited test schemes, big crowds.
13:13Oh, that'll be weird.
13:14Yeah, might have to pump in sound or something to give it atmos.
13:16Of course.
13:19Squad.
13:24Look, Gareth, you're a loyal bloke, but this is a tournament at Wembley.
13:31We're gonna have to make some tough decisions. The under-21s, the talent that's there, ready, waiting.
13:38We need to make room for it.
13:41Remember something you said, when all this started, before Russia, you wanted England to feel young again.
13:50That was you.
13:52I think that might have been Tony Blair.
13:55But yeah, I think I stole and repurposed that, yeah.
13:58Well, a new story. New England. This is our time. Nice is nice, but winning is winning.
14:24Oh, Eric. It's Gareth.
14:29Yeah, it's just...
14:32It's just this tournament, you know.
14:35It feels like THE tournament that, uh...
14:37I'm sorry, Eric. What you did for your country.
14:40That fifth penalty.
14:44What?
14:44If the most you suck can be for the team,
14:48is to not be in it, then...
14:51Thanks, Eric.
14:53I'll see you soon.
15:31If the most you suck can be on, I'll see you soon.
15:32Yes, I'll see you soon.
15:32No, it's just...
15:33Ah, good.
15:35Yeah, you know, I get it. I've not been informed and, you know, I don't need my hand holding
15:42or my arse wiping. I'm not a child, so.
15:46It's not about being a child. It's about normal feelings of disappointment. So if you want
15:52to talk.
15:53God's talking going to change. We won't change it. So.
15:59Okay. Well, I think you might have my number. Do you have my number?
16:05Yeah. Yeah, I think so. Thanks.
16:30You're going to do some therapy on me?
16:32No. But I'm here if you want to share what you're thinking. If you want to chat.
16:37What I'm thinking? Um, right. I think I'm thinking about, you know, the vibes now are all about
16:43trust and be vulnerable and you are safe here. Fucking great. Glad I trusted. That worked
16:51out well.
16:52It's about trusting others with what you're going through, Deli. The good and the bad.
16:56And there's always going to be bad in sport at this level.
16:59Did you think I don't fucking know that, Pippa?
17:10Sorry.
17:13I, um, I don't know who that is. That name. I don't speak to those people no more. They're
17:22not my family. I went to live somewhere else. Fucking passed around. Like, fuck them.
17:37I just stumble. I feel that. You're following me around on my back.
17:50I had a lot of very different from you. But my family growing up wasn't stable. And I learned
17:59how to close those feelings down. Keep small. I feel so lucky that I realised later how wrong
18:07that was. That everything we're worried and frightened about just becomes bigger in the dark.
18:16All I'm saying is always share this stuff, Deli. Make it less big.
18:26What's the matter anyways? When you're being dropped. Always being dropped.
18:37Downs.
18:47England hosting the Euros. First home tournament since, uh, the Euro 96. What a summer that
18:52was, because the Sun, Shawn, and the Country came together.
18:55Yeah, yeah. I mean, after all that we've been through the last year and a bit I just...
18:58I want to feel connected again and... I want to feel part of something.
19:01But yeah, I want it to feel like the summer of 96, except this time we go on and whatever,
19:05but for a long while, we've not been feeling too good about ourselves in this country.
19:09But I think even me too, Lee, football can do just that.
19:24Hi, Mike.
19:26I'm so.
19:52Oh, my gosh, boss.
19:54Sorry, I'm being a chump.
19:57I have been following the nutrition plan, I promise.
19:59Yeah, yeah, it's okay.
20:00Just this once.
20:02One of these in my Bible.
20:04Maybe like my, maybe like my desert island things, you know?
20:08That's great, Bakaio.
20:09I love that.
20:09What's your favorite, you know, bit?
20:11Uh, I don't know.
20:13I'd say the caramel, you know?
20:14Makes it sweet.
20:15It has a little something to it.
20:16I'm in the Bible.
20:18Oh, uh, I don't know.
20:21It's all good.
20:22It reminds me that God is there guiding me, that he has a plan.
20:27Well, it's not the only one, Bakaio.
20:30That's what's...
20:47What is that?
20:53Is that a trick question?
20:56No.
20:59The world is about to be focused on us.
21:03On here.
21:04And these are going to be everywhere.
21:07In every car, millions of homes.
21:10And these things can be emotive and complicated.
21:14We know that.
21:16So let's own it and uncomplicate it.
21:21I set us the task before Russia of asking the question,
21:24what is your England?
21:26And you've started to answer that on the pitch.
21:30Your character as a team.
21:32Great.
21:32Amazing.
21:33I just don't want us to be knocked sideways at, well, two things with this
21:38surprise new pressure of hosting.
21:39One, the expectation that comes with that to do well, better.
21:43And two, the amount of, I suppose, national introspection that comes when you host.
21:49So I'm asking, what home means to you?
21:54Phil.
21:55Hello, Phil.
21:55Where's home for you?
21:56South Park.
21:57Jack?
21:58Uh, home when?
22:00Home now.
22:01Your origins?
22:02Oh, it's Ollyhoor.
22:03And Jaden?
22:04Uh, South London.
22:05Pennington.
22:06And you're proud of those places, right?
22:09Yeah.
22:09Yeah, yeah.
22:10Of course.
22:11You know, poems or paintings or the cliche of the idea of England is always hills and
22:19countryside and little village greens.
22:21But that's not where you come from, is it?
22:23Where most of the fans come from?
22:25We should be proud of that.
22:28Speak up.
22:29Declare the places you're from.
22:32I'm Gareth from Crawley.
22:33Yeah, but I'm Gareth from Crawley, which I know makes me sound like a travel agent.
22:43But for better or worse, I'm England manager.
22:46And I fell in love with this game, kicking a ball against my back wall in a small semi
22:50in Crawley.
22:51Small semi.
22:52So that's who I am.
22:54Who's next?
22:55Mosbury.
22:56South Yorkshire.
22:59Wolfenstall.
23:00Washington.
23:01Tynan, where are you?
23:02England.
23:02Sutherland.
23:03Wittenshaw.
23:04Exactly, Wittenshaw.
23:05Those places we're told sound like shit places.
23:08But they're our shit places.
23:10They're the fans' places.
23:12England.
23:15Being confident in our identity, knowing our story, is how...
23:27is how we're going to win this tournament.
23:32What?
23:34Do you think we can win this one?
23:37I think we can.
23:39I think we will!
23:40Yes!
23:58England are second favourites to win the tournament behind world champions France.
24:02There's a real opportunity here because of the array of attacking talent.
24:06Harry Kane is one of the best strikers in the world football
24:09and our biggest asset of them all is our manager.
24:11Southgate is reshaking football off the field as well as on it.
24:14Encouraging the players to step beyond their role as footballers.
24:18To see that as something that helps their game.
24:21Here I am. You know what this place means to me.
24:23The place that grew up literally in the shadow of the Wembley Arch.
24:26And now I'm about to step onto that pitch and play for my country.
24:29So my message is...
24:31Believe.
24:32And come on England.
24:34There's such a good feeling around these lads that if home advantage kicks in
24:38there's no reason why we can't go all the way.
24:40There we go.
24:49Không.
24:51And come!
24:54Go!
24:55Go!
24:56Go to Little guy!
25:00Go to Little guy!
25:06Listen up!
25:08They just keep the sv.
25:10Do you have a minute?
25:12Pippa, yeah.
25:13Of course.
25:17Pippa?
25:18I'm sorry Gareth.
25:21Okay.
25:21Don't think I hold any feelings towards you or any of this, because I don't.
25:25Pippa, the Euros and the new pressure, they're under.
25:28I know, but I don't think I'm helping your story by becoming a part of it.
25:31And I really don't want to be the story Gareth.
25:34And with you going in a slightly new direction.
25:37No, it isn't new.
25:38Okay, different.
25:39A different backroom structure and emphasis.
25:42But honestly, that's fine, because...
25:44Gareth.
25:46Hey.
25:48I say this with love and an awareness that you're sort of trapped here, aren't you?
25:54Trapped? You think I'm trapped?
25:56But this, me here, was never meant to be my whole life.
25:59This was never meant to be the thing that defined me.
26:03This is the clock thing.
26:04Bringing it forward.
26:06Stepping up there, because I accept.
26:08We really are pressing forward with performance now.
26:10The end result. I accept...
26:12Gareth, our work has always been about getting their best performance.
26:14Yes, and we've made huge strides.
26:16But now, now they need to learn to win.
26:18Gareth, that's...
26:19You have everything you need to be able to win.
26:21Well okay, but now that we're hosting, we have to.
26:24Have to prove, inescapably, that this way works.
26:28Really?
26:31Not even a bit of this is about wanting to redefine your part in the story?
26:36Gareth, you're still there, aren't you?
26:39There? Where?
26:40Ninety-six. You're still on that spot.
26:43Please don't fucking patronise me, Pippa, okay?
26:47Sorry, but like I haven't been on that long walk away from there, like I haven't done that work.
26:52I know what I did.
26:53What happened to you, not what you did.
27:03I didn't decide. I can't help it.
27:06That that walk away from here has brought me right back here.
27:10A tournament here, with those ghosts.
27:15All I can do, try and do, is this.
27:23Seize this moment, now.
27:31And what I need to do, is step away.
27:40It's okay.
27:42It's okay.
27:46Pippa, wait a minute.
28:07How are you doing, Marcus?
28:10Alright.
28:11You're writing in your journal, that's good.
28:14Nah.
28:15I tried, but...
28:16You don't believe in like, superstitions and stuff, do you?
28:20Well, it doesn't matter what I believe, does it?
28:23What do you believe?
28:27You know, H doesn't shave if he's on a scarring streak.
28:30I think Eric's been wearing the same socks for about nine years.
28:34They all know I tacked my boots together four times before a game.
28:37But I also, secretly, I know it sounds daft, but I also look up to my nan and say a
28:50couple words.
28:52But I can't remember if I did that in Russia, when we went out for that final game.
28:57But I didn't play well.
28:59And we lost.
29:00And I know it's ages ago.
29:02But I still think about it.
29:04Well, okay.
29:08It doesn't matter when you do it, does it?
29:11Do it now.
29:12We'll do it together.
29:13Nah, come on, no.
29:14It's daft.
29:15What's her name?
29:16Your gran?
29:19Cillian.
29:25Cillian, I'm...
29:34I wanted to say...
29:37Your grandson...
29:39He was one of five young men back against Colombia...
29:44Who did something for his country no others have ever done.
29:49And that's locked.
29:51Forever.
29:52No one can ever take that away.
29:55So, yeah.
29:59Yeah.
30:01And then your feet.
30:07One, two, three, four.
30:29It is a very different type of challenge.
30:32Tight surrounds.
30:33Stark, close-up partisanship.
30:37This is the nuts and bolts of tournament qualifying for this emerging young England team.
30:431991.
30:43Jeanborough, character.
30:44Vibe pits.
30:45Raheem Sterling and Barkley 3.
30:482
31:27I know, I know. I'm sorry. I didn't hear it. I wasn't listening for it. I'm sorry. Raheem.
31:34It's fine. It's fine. Look, it's not like it's the first time we heard that stuff, right?
31:39Like monkey chancing shit. It's like, oh wow, it's so fucking original.
31:44What do you want to do? Should we, all of us, collectively say something maybe?
31:48What? What, just like that? You think it's that easy?
31:51No, no, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to make it sound easy.
31:54And I have been saying. And say what, anyway?
31:58What, like that racist abuse is bad? Like it's upsetting? Like that needs saying?
32:03Then we should say something. Right? Can't always just be you guys.
32:09They'll just tell us to show up. Stick to football. They always do.
32:13You know, you talk about, with the flags, what is our England? This is a part of it.
32:18People that think that some of us shouldn't be wearing the shirt.
32:21Right, right. Because today we'll just be like, oh, well, we're playing abroad.
32:24Abroad that happens. But I'm like, nah, nah. It happens at home too.
32:27Our home, Gareth. Our England. He's right. This is a part of it.
32:34So you're gonna include that? Talk about that?
32:38Yeah. We talk about that.
32:50So England's European Championship campaign is precisely a week away.
32:55Here is the last dress rehearsal for Gareth Southgate's squad.
33:00And England take a knee in the ongoing campaign to eradicate racism from football.
33:08Would you take the knee, Prime Minister?
33:10I'll tell you what, I'll tell you what, I'll tell you honestly what I do.
33:12Is this a yes or no?
33:13My answer?
33:14Boris Johnson refuses to condemn fans booing England.
33:16That's absolutely fair.
33:17Nobody defends booing of the England side.
33:20Gareth Southgate insists his squad will show solidarity with those fighting for change.
33:26So I'm just taking the knee thing.
33:28Maybe it's got a broader history that seems to be taken from the game threat.
33:31English fans booing our boys was a disgrace.
33:36It's so un-English to boo.
33:38I just don't support gesture politics to a certain extent.
33:42I don't support it because I see it as a divisive, simple.
33:44I see it's associated with Bright Lives Matter.
33:46There are probably other managers that may have been more likely than the woke Mr Southgate.
33:54We're wasting time arguing as to whether we can take a knee or not rather than trying to be talking
33:57about it.
33:58When he said we are about more than football, no Mr Southgate.
34:01The idea that it's right for the football team to get involved with political gestures is a mistake.
34:09I thought there'd be more a sense of togetherness maybe going into this after what we all went through.
34:16I don't know, it feels so unedged, doesn't it?
34:20Maybe someone needs to say that.
34:25Like you said, sort of name it.
34:27The mood.
34:28Where we are.
34:31I'm not sure people want to hear any more from us.
34:33From me.
34:34What do I know anyway?
34:37I hate social media.
34:38I'd rather eat my own face.
34:42I don't know.
34:46A letter then.
34:48Like wartime.
34:50A letter to home.
34:59It's looking sharp, fellas.
35:02Nice and a tough one.
35:03That was a good idea.
35:09Look, I backed your whole life thesis.
35:11I always do.
35:12Players owning their story.
35:15But, Christ, is this what you meant?
35:18Political protests and...
35:20I thought we wanted to unite the country.
35:23This, it's so...
35:24It's so divisive.
35:26It's what the players are dealing with, Greg.
35:27We can't bury our heads.
35:29We have to carry the...
35:30You know, the mood of the nation.
35:34Wow.
35:35One man, Gareth.
35:37The mood of a nation.
35:40It's good.
35:41The players.
35:42They feel like they can...
35:44Express.
35:45But how do we keep this as a celebration, too?
35:48That's all.
35:49I mean, don't we all need that, too, right now?
35:51It will be a celebration, Greg.
35:52I promise.
35:54An honest one.
36:04Great.
36:06Hey, season one!
36:08Yeah!
36:13What's up, everybody?
36:14Hey!
36:15Keep in mind.
36:17You can't see the camera.
36:18We can't see you.
36:19We can't see you.
36:21We can't see you.
36:22We can't see you.
36:24We can't see you.
36:26We can't see you.
36:27There will always be an England
36:32While there's a country laying
36:35I think this is the most divided England has ever felt.
36:38Be proud to be British.
36:39Yes, don't we, North.
36:39All about immigration.
36:40Riminals.
36:41Traitor.
36:41Terrorism.
36:42No, no, it's not like politically correct.
36:43No, we can't see you.
36:44We can't see you.
36:45Level up!
36:45No, no, no, no.
36:46We are in the country that we have now.
36:49We'll get a job!
36:49There are no jobs!
36:50Well, there's a certain amount of self-giving.
36:52That goes up to the thing.
36:53You can't listen to the working class.
36:55Oh, gosh.
36:55More joy.
36:56Get on with it.
36:57Don't you like it?
36:58It's brilliant.
36:59It's all about something like...
37:02Martin, I feel.
37:09Dear England.
37:13I can't possibly hope to speak for an entire country.
37:18But I would like to share a few things with you as we begin this journey.
37:23It's been an incredibly difficult time.
37:26It's given us all a new understanding of the fragility of life.
37:31And in the grand scheme of things, perhaps football doesn't seem so important.
37:37And what I want to speak about is much bigger than football.
37:43I tell my players that what they are a part of, what we are all a part of,
37:50is an experience that lasts in the collective consciousness of our country.
37:57Every game has the potential to create a lifelong memory for an England fan somewhere.
38:09Why do we care so much?
38:13What I know is, what is often forgotten is, how much it means to the players.
38:20Players are fans too.
38:22The idea that they don't care has become a false narrative.
38:25And we must give them confidence to stand up for their teammates.
38:32I have never believed that we should just stick to football.
38:36Of course, I know my players and I will be judged on winning matches, believe me.
38:40But the reality is that the result is just a small part.
38:47It's about how we conduct ourselves.
38:50And how we bring people together.
38:53That lasts beyond the summer.
38:59That lasts forever.
39:02Forever.
39:17The journey starts here.
39:19The first chapter in what England hope will be an epic tale.
39:23Starts with a rematch of the World Cup semi-final.
39:28The first goal in the European Championship.
39:32And Raheem Sterling is the man.
39:33It's a good start for Townscape.
39:35Can he keep this up throughout the tournament?
39:42They're happy to tease the Czech defence.
39:44Does that?
39:45And it's heavy there.
39:48But England have won and they've topped the group.
39:51They will play in the round of 16 against two.
39:54We'll have to wait to see.
39:56Now after all the talk about the ghosts of history is down to these players to take their
40:02own places in the saga of this great international fiction.
40:08There's your spark.
40:10Wembley.
40:10The boy from Wembley.
40:12Yeah.
40:12The boy from Wembley.
40:14Green is in.
40:16Incomplication.
40:17Now the Southgate can add beating Germany into his incredible list of achievements.
40:22What is lovely is we've given people another day to remember.
40:31There's McQuarrie.
40:37I've got a great connection on it.
40:38It was always going to end up in the back of the net with that connection.
40:41A lot of people have fallen out of love for football.
40:43These guys and the manager have made people think again and how special football is and
40:47can be.
40:47I'm going to be Gruy.
40:47Okay, penalties.
40:52What do you think, that's it?
40:53We've cracked them and we won't have to face them again.
40:56Come on.
41:00Let's go Russia!
41:22The stage is set, Harry Kane steps up.
41:40Yes, yes, yes, the long, long wait is over, a Wembley roar to hail England's history makers
41:53into the final for the first time in 55 years.
42:00Unbelievable, final at home, what a feeling.
42:03Obviously it's going to be a tough game against Italy, but yeah, we can't wait.
42:44I just had to tell Saka the other day, it's not always like this, don't get used to it.
42:48And now to finish their job?
42:50Yeah, that's it, finals are there to be won.
42:58It was a long time coming, but the best part is, it's arrived.
43:06It's excitement and emotion around Wembley that hasn't been felt since, you know when.
43:14Are England's young lions ready for the game of their lives?
43:19Yes, it's hard not to feel the stars aligning.
43:25That England should fight themselves back here, back home, with all its ghosts of the past,
43:31and hopes for the future.
43:56And hopes for the future.
44:07Now the game that so many have waited a lifetime to see, is underway.
44:15Walker is charging past Trippier, it's Trippier who will cross, and it's Luke Shaw!
44:23It's the start of dreams!
44:27The excitement around Wembley now, has reached levels never hit before.
44:41England, get the second half started with that one goal lead.
44:48He needs to slug it in, flicked across, this is a problem!
44:54Italy on level, and it is Bonucci!
45:00Italy's second half response has been admirable, and Gini has altered his personnel,
45:06he has altered the dynamic, and it is England now who have to find answers.
45:13Time for the car of Saka!
45:16Come on boys!
45:22One, two, three, four!
45:24That's an extra time.
45:29Hurry!
45:31General!
45:34Walker's going direct.
45:36Saka!
45:38Just looks a little bit concerned about Southgate.
45:41We can see if there are any signs of an England change.
45:47Go.
45:48We're sticking with the data, the strongest penalty takers.
45:51If you want them on, we have to do it now.
45:53I can't believe it's come down to this.
45:56Here?
45:58Yeah.
46:04It is going to be Sancho and Rashford on for England for the last few minutes.
46:26Time to steal yourselves at home.
46:28England once again are involved in a penalty shootout.
46:33It had to come to this, didn't it?
46:36After a month of hard work, hard yards, it is down to kicks from 12 yards, 11 meters.
46:46Aaron Southgate has talked about penalties a lot, he's had to.
46:52Let's go!
46:56Let's go!
46:56Let's go!
46:57Let's go!
46:57What's the trip?
47:03Well here we go folks.
47:05Cross your fingers, hide behind your sofa, do whatever you do.
47:09And punch.
47:09Christ this can't be over.
47:11Is this really over?
47:15First up for Italy is Domenico Berardi.
47:211 out of 1 for Italy
47:241 out of 1 for Italy
48:00That's the standard for others to follow
48:09Andrea Pallotti
48:14And take good saves
48:24Take a moment for Harry Maguire
48:26Another leader in the England camp
48:45Scores
48:45Towards the middle
48:51Advantage England
48:52Benucci next
49:04Marcus Rashford up next for England
49:08Only came into the game for the last two minutes of action
49:14He's had to sit and watch
49:16Keep his legs fresh and ready for this
49:39He tried to place it
49:41He tried to place it
49:552-2 after three
49:58Now the pressure goes back on England's players
50:12The Italians take the upper hand
50:15England behind
50:18Up next
50:20Who was brought on at the very end
50:22As a kind of special teams player
50:23It's going to be Jadon Sancho
50:35He's really got to score this one
50:44Saved by Donnarumma
50:51Italy a warm kick away from European glory
51:00And it is Jorginho
51:02Who has missed the 100%
51:05From the penalty spot
51:07Lord of Pickford tells himself
51:09No problem
51:09He's up to this
51:11Well he has to be
51:33England is still alive
51:52Now he can do no more than the rest of us
51:56Then turn and watch
52:0019 years old
52:01For Caillou Saka
52:03Step up and take huge responsibility
52:06On his young shoulders
52:08Saka has to score
52:39Up next
52:39Up next
53:01To get hugeing
53:01I don't know.
53:43I don't know.
54:11I don't know.
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