Remembering Euro 96: Gazza's goal, Three Lions ... and penalties | Simon Burnton

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ITV is replaying Euro 96 in full, allowing us to bask in the summer of Cool Britannia all over again but was it that good?

The decision of ITV to replay Euro 96 in full, starting on Monday, is fraught with risk. They say you should never meet your heroes, and the same might apply to legendary sporting events. In this case even those who lived through it first time round and remember it as the very best of times may find, on getting to know it properly and soberly, that the reality does not live up to the myth.

 

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There was a school fete that day I remember going to a friends house for the game, what a moment.

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