Football finally came home after England’s women did what the men couldn’t do since 1966.
The magnificent Lionesses beating Germany to win the Women’s Euros at Wembley was a fantastic footballing and sporting moment.
But it also something much more when millions of young girls, women of all ages and men too, of course, saw a national female team crowned champions of Europe in the people’s game.
The Lionesses lived their own dreams but they will also inspire the masses watching in stadiums and on TVs in pubs and homes.
Women’s football across Britain is growing fast and many more will hopefully take up the sport, encouraged by the wonderful role models they saw on the pitch.
In a miserable era of the worst cost of living crisis for decades and a dispiriting Conservative Party squabble over the Premiership, the Lionesses are a shining ray of light.
Thank you and huge congratulations.
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