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Let’s Bring it Home! A Culmination of 55 Years of Hard Work to Get to the Euro 2020 Final for England: A Celebration Gone Wrong - Ilina Kabra
Wembley Stadium, Sunday, 11th July 2021 -
Crowds of England football fans cheering can be heard echoing around Wembley, as Bukayo Saka steps up to take the fifth penalty in the Euro 2020 Final against Italy. He runs, shoots, his foot connecting with the ball, and looks utterly heartbroken as Gianluigi Donnarumma saves the penalty. The goalkeeper diving to his left to whack the ball away from the goal, crowning Italy as the Euro 2020 Champions. With Saka’s miss happening moments after Marcus Rashford and Jadon Sancho both missed their penalties; England lost the shoot-out in the Final. In The Rolling Stones’ song, ‘You Can’t Always Get What You Want’, frontman Mick Jagger sings, “You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, well, you might find, you get what you need”. England did not end up getting what they wanted, but the tournament got them what they needed—a celebration after the disastrous COVID-19 pandemic!
Image by Ellen Kerbey on Unsplash
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