England win Women’s Euro 2022 final: all the reaction – live! | Women’s Euro 2022

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Let’s take a second to savour a number of snaps from a momentous night time at Wembley.

Amid all this English back-slapping, what of the poor Germany staff? Their night time was most likely finest summed up by an unlucky incident even earlier than a ball had been kicked at Wembley, when striker Alexandra Popp suffered a muscle harm within the warmup. Maybe the writing was on the wall?

And, as with most high-stakes soccer matches that should contain a winner and a loser, a way of injustice pervades from the fallen, on this case over an incident within the twenty fifth minute that I didn’t see, sincere. Marcus Hildebrandt has emailed in to remind me about it, anyway. “Have a really shut take a look at the twenty fifth minute. Somebody’s hand is stopping a objective [for Germany], and it isn’t the goalkeeper’s!” Marcus writes. “However, congratulations!”

German tabloid Bild was much less magnanimous, declaring: “We’re cheated once more.” Extra response from Germany right here:

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has issued his congratulations to the Lionesses.

I couldn’t be extra happy with the staff right now – they’ve displayed extraordinary expertise and willpower all through the event, they’ve damaged information, and now they’ve made historical past. The environment at Wembley and throughout the nation all through the event has been a unbelievable advert for ladies’s soccer. Almost 600,000 tickets have been offered for the matches and greater than 9 million individuals tuned in to look at England play.

The Girls’s Euro 22 could have impressed a brand new technology of ladies footballers and I hope this paves the way in which for higher entry to soccer for women in class, extra funding in grassroots women and girls’s soccer and far more assist for women and girls in all sports activities.

I wish to thank Sarina Wiegman and the Lionesses for treating us to a tremendous summer season of soccer. I can’t wait to see them elevate the trophy once more as they rejoice with the followers on Trafalgar Sq. on Monday.

Rob Collins has emailed in. “Hello Mike.” Hello Rob. “A shocking consequence that rewarded all those that believed. As a thanks, I’d like to see the Lionesses do an open prime bus parade in each city that hosted a sport.” Good concept. Sheffield, Brighton, Southampton and Manchester stand by.

Alternative abounds and, writes Jonathan Liew, the longer term is vivid:

England received. In the long run, maybe that was the one factor that mattered…However in fact it needed to imply greater than this. And as captain Leah Williamson hoisted the trophy aloft in her rainbow armband, in entrance of a document crowd and a tv viewers more likely to be the best ever for a sport of ladies’s soccer in Britain, it felt concurrently like the top of 1 journey and the start of one other. The primary, an timeless battle for sources and respect, for parity and a platform, is lastly full. The second is a journey with no maps, no driver and no finish in sight.

Extra right here:

So capitalise on this unbelievable second? Guardian soccer contributors Suzanne Wrack, Faye Carruthers, Louise Taylor, Sophie Downey and Jen Offord have been requested for his or her ideas. From launching a World Cup bid to a daring advertising plan, right here they’re:

Sunday’s closing attracted a document 87,192 followers to Wembley – the best attendance of any European Championship closing, males’s or ladies’s – to spherical off a record-breaking event by way of in-person attendance. Curiosity within the ladies’s sport has by no means been greater and there appears to have been a shift in notion over the previous couple of weeks.

As Carrie Dunn writes:

For the primary time, loads of this summer season’s protection has been about approach and ways, not simply the gamers and their private lives. Each female and male pundits have been analysing the video games, and the mainstream media have been chatting concerning the outcomes – which can be what’s occurred in workplaces across the nation. It’s on a regular basis watercooler speak, the identical as you’d count on from any main males’s event.

Learn Carrie’s full article right here:

The Queen stated England’s victory was “a major achievement”, earlier than including that the England squad “set an instance that will likely be an inspiration for women and girls right now, and for future generations”.

In the meantime, English soccer royalty Sarina Wiegman said six clear phrases after her aspect’s win. “Most of all, we modified society,” the Dutch coach stated. “I feel what we’ve completed is absolutely unbelievable. I’m so happy with the staff. I feel I want a few days to grasp what we’ve completed.”

Extra from Wiegman and her gamers right here:

We are able to count on extra scenes like this right now, then.

Of all of the celebrations already seen although, that is fairly probably one of the best – the second when the England gamers storm an unsuspecting Wiegman’s post-match presser, singing and dancing to the tune of Baddiel and Skinner’s anthemic Three Lions. Simply wonderful.

Public celebrations can proceed on Monday with a daytime occasion scheduled at Trafalgar Sq., the place followers will be capable to be part of a Q and A session with the victorious gamers and their supervisor, my colleague Gemma McSherry stories. Followers will be capable to flip up and acquire admission on a first-come, first served foundation from 11am and the occasion will likely be broadcast on dwell on BBC One and BBC iPlayer from 12.40pm.

England’s “historical past makers” clearly make each the back and front pages of this morning’s UK papers, with loads of predictable references in headlines to “coming residence”, “years of harm” and so forth. Learn all of them right here:

The place to begin? How about with the views of the Girls’s Soccer Weekly podcast crew? Faye Carruthers, Suzanne Wrack, Ceylon Andi Hickman and Jonathan Liew obtained collectively in a Premier Inn room to digest the enormity of what they witnessed at Wembley – and what the longer term holds for the ladies’s sport. Take a hear right here:

Preamble

Mike Hytner