Want Euro 2020 news sent straight to your inbox? Sign up to our email updates With one swipe of Harry Kane's right foot, a party 55 years in the making swept across England last night.
From the beer showers in the Boxpark to the elation in Exeter - criss-crossing wild celebrations in front rooms, pubs and parks in Newcastle, Manchester - this was a primal scream of pleasure that brought the nation together behind Gareth Southgate's band of brothers.
Slaying the ghosts of Turin, Euro '96 and that long night in Russia, England looked almost unrecognisable at times - confident, assured, making us wonder what all the fuss was about.
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