#lewis dunk

"it’s a great honour for me to be able to wear his number in the Premier League and I hadn’t scored for six years and then today I score wearing his number, so that’s obviously a bit of help from the great man himself."

I won’t lie, this result doesn’t hurt as much as the Italy final. Nowhere near as much, because in my own head I expected us to lose 2-0/3-0, Spain just are in their own league of their own atm, the young talent they’ve got coming through their ranks is insane.

we’ve not played our best this tournament, it’s been utter dogshit if I’m being honest, the England from a few years ago was completely different. we play such boring football, our tactics are just not right, and it’s a pain in the ass to watch at times.

But still, we had hope. it’s the one thing that kills us off, hope. we know what this team are like, getting the final huddle again and again and falling short, but we always hope. always have the hope that we will one day bring football home. whether it’s the wc, the next euros or in ten years time, we always have the hope.

they say it’s the hope that kills you, but for England fans it’s the hope that keeps us alive. We’ll always keep that hope with us, with the talent in our ranks, that one day they finally will bring it home.

This will hurt today, hurt tomorrow, hurt for the next year but, we will always pick ourselves up and go again, it’s just what we do.

today it went home to Spain, but god knows what the future holds. this team will pick themselves us, pick up the pain, players will come and go, but we’ll go again.

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