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Euro 96 – An Almost Perfect Summer

Tom Green recalls a tournament which captured the entire country’s imagination.
Teddy Sheringham and Paul Gascoigne Euro 96

Tom Green recalls a tournament which captured the entire country's imagination

Kevin Keegan’s Newcastle United had just blown a 12-point lead, Premier League football was on the rise, 4-4-2 was still cool, the Spice Girls were preparing for world domination and the Fugees were number one with Killing Me Softly – to put it simply, this was the summer of 1996 when football so nearly came home.
Firstly, we need to address the jaw-dropping revelation that Three Lions by Baddiel, Skinner and the Lightning Seeds was not topping the charts as Euro 96 kicked off.
Don’t get me wrong, the Fugees prod...

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