WHEN FOOTBALL CAME HOME
here are many England fans that still believe that football really did come home in the summer of 1996. There may not have been a European Championship triumph at the end of it, but there was a definite change in the way the sport was regarded in the country – and the Premier League was never the same again. But how much of an impact did Euro 96 have on the way football was played in England? And was the tournament as good as those memories suggest? This summer England will host the most important games of Euro 2020 as it is spread across the continent. But 30 years on from Bobby Moore lifting the Jules Rimet trophy in 1966, England hosted a European Championship that is now looked back on as
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