[WakeyTerrier]

I'm back, not jumping for joy either.

Where to start..

Arrived at Wembley way at about 4.15ish, nearly 4 hours before kick off. Wembley Way was heaving, I've not seen Wembley like that ever before.

Got in the ground at 5pm and had a couple of pints of overpriced beer, took up our position in our seats and soaked up the atmosphere, which in general was good.

As the game got closer we started hearing reports that Wembley had closed down the turnstiles as ticketless fans had breached security outside. Little did we know that it was chaos in the concourse around Wembley. People were squeezing in through the turnstile without tickets and when they were throwing them out of the exit gates then dozens of others would push the stewards back and force entry. The stewards were overwhelmed and fights broke out between those without tickets and those that had bought tickets trying to boot them back out. Has to be said the stewards and the policing in and around Wembley were under staffed and overwhelmed.

Back to the game, what a start...dreamland and what a sweet finish by Shaw, the place was rocking. We desperately need a second goal but we didn't do enough to get it. I thought we looked comfortable even though Italy had a lot of the ball until Mancini made the double sub on 54/55minutes. Italy then looked more of a threat and to be fair it stayed that way for most of the remainder of the game.
I thought the ref could have given us a lot more and booked the Italians earlier but he didn't but seemed to give them a free kick every time they fell over.
Penalties, well what can you say.
Rashford...dreadful, what was that run up about and then the shot...dreadful. If you are going to f##k about with a run up like that then you at the very least have to hit the target.
Sancho and Saka, credit to the goalie he made the saves

This morning I read about racist abuse to these lads, these do not represent the crowd from last night. Yes Rashford got some stick for his penalty but not one comment about the colour of his skin.

Any way overall its progression
World Cup losing semi finalist
Euro 2020 Runner up.
Qatar 2022 winners????

Next stop hopefully Budapest and Hungary away in September providing they let away fans travel