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ISSUE 166 NETHERLANDSHOLLAND V ENGLAND V ENGLAND 6TH JUNE 2019 ...the free England fanzine produced and distributed by the Football Supporters’ PORTO METRO MAP Association (FSA) as part of our Fans’ Embassy service 3 ND welcome to Portugal, a relatively small city without a huge Holland v England to (we hope) both amount of accommodation, and so PAGE Estadio D. Afonso Henriques, AGuimarães and Porto, for many England fans will be making Guimarães the semi-final and (we hope) Porto their base even for the first Thursday, 6th June 2019 the final of the first-ever UEFA game, making a day trip north for Nations League. After a gap of 22 the match itself. Kick–off 19:45, local time years, Gareth and the team have England will probably now treated us to two semi- With over 10,000 tickets sold by the play in WHITE finals in the space of a year, and FA to ESTC members for this game brought us tantalisingly close to (that doesn’t include the extra few the prospect of winning a trophy thousand who have purchased in for the first time since 1966 – UEFA’s public sale), this will be the Useful Numbers that’s 53 long years, so there will biggest turnout of official England Fans’ Embassy Helpline: be quite a party if we achieve it. fans for years (the ticket allocation is +44 7956 121314 far higher than we’ve had at World Before we can even begin to get Cups and European Championships), England Supporters Club (FA): excited about the possibility of a and we’re likely far to outnumber the +44 7970 146250 final against Portugal on their own Dutch at the semi-final. British Embassy: turf, we first of all have to beat a +351 21 392 4000 resurgent Dutch team (and of course Among our number will be a fair Emergencies: 112 our hosts have to beat the Swiss), so few attending their first away we can take nothing for granted. game – welcome to the party. We have a great opportunity to have So honestly, the reason we have an amazing time in the sunshine, included some guide information and also to enhance even further about Porto in this edition of Free the reputation of England fans, Lions is not out of complacency, but so please, stick to our one simple Contact Free Lions because we know that Guimarães is maxim: don’t be a dick. Have fun! 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BY CLIVE HETHERINGTON CONTACT CLIVE VIA [email protected] 4 5 Jadon Sancho has become a firm in the 5–0 rout of the Czech While Hudson-Odoi’s display rightly was the man of the match against friend of Hudson-Odoi as they have Republic at Wembley in the Euro grabbed plenty of attention, Chelsea Montenegro with a brace. PAGE PAGE risen through the England ranks qualifying opener in March, teammate Ross Barkley, now 25, together from Under-16 level. Hudson-Odoi then made his full provided a further plus for England Cole said: “He got two goals England debut – nine days before manager Gareth Southgate. and an assist and he looked so Sancho, who is still only 19, was lost starting for the first time in a comfortable in an England shirt to English football’s top flight, though Premier League game in Chelsea’s Barkley’s career at club and in that game. He came deep, got his circumstances were influenced by 3-0 win over Brighton on 3rd April. international level has been stop- on the ball and took it in difficult a contract issue with Manchester City start since much was made of his positions. He looked a real player. which centred on assurances over Former Three Lions and Chelsea potential heading into the 2014 first-team appearances. midfielder Joe Cole sang Hudson- World Cup in Brazil. “I just think he needs to develop a Odoi’s praises, despite a costly lack bit more in his game where he gets Despite being earmarked for of reaction when Montenegro took There were comparisons between in there and picks up the type of stardom with City, after they had the lead in Podgorica. the then-Everton midfielder and tap-in he had for the first goal. It was signed him from Watford at only former Toffee Paul Gascoigne. a great finish because it’s not easy 14, Sancho failed to figure in a “It was perfectly understandable when the ball is coming across you. T says much about English first-team game and ended up from an 18-year-old who has Four years later, Barkley was nowhere physicality. He’s starting to knit clubs often ignoring their best falling into the hands of Bundesliga come into the side, and a lesson to be seen as England reached a “He’s shown maturity but he them altogether. Ihome-grown players in favour giants Borussia Dortmund, who to learn,” commented Cole. “You World Cup semi-final for the first needs to arrive in the box like of imported foreign talent that paid an initial £8million for him in want him to jump for the ball and time since 1990 and the days when Frank Lampard and get on the “I’m a great fan of his and I think Callum Hudson-Odoi started a August 2017. read the danger, but Callum was Gazza was the nation’s favourite. end of things because he has he has all the attributes to become senior international before he did excellent running at people. He But Barkley, back in the England fold, the technique, the size and the a world-class midfielder.” a Premier League game. He made his England debut as a brings you power, pace, directness substitute in the goalless, behind- and fearlessness. He’s a great IN MEMORY OF IVOR BROADIS & TOMMY SMITH by Clive Hetherington The Chelsea starlet, 18, looked closed-doors Nations League draw player and he can be even better. the part in something a little in Croatia last October and started more than a cameo role as for the first time in the 3-0 friendly “The reason he played against NGLAND’S oldest- forward also had the distinction of England came from behind to home win against the USA the Montenegro was that, as well as surviving international, transferring himself from Carlisle beat hosts Montenegro 5-1 in following month. England needing to win the game, EIvor Broadis, died on 12th to Sunderland! He won 14 caps for a Euro 2020 qualifier in March you also need to develop players April at 96. And on the same England, scoring eight goals, two of when morons among the home Sancho is now valued at upwards of like Callum and he’s getting better day, one-time (literally as, them at the 1954 World Cup. Broadis and won his solitary England cap support hurled racist abuse at £100m and, at the time of writing, and better every time I see him.” surprisingly, he only won one went on to work as a football against Wales at Wembley in 1971. Three Lions players. the talk is of him finally making that cap) Three Lion and Liverpool reporter and settled in Carlisle. He ended his career with Swansea. Premier League debut in a return to Ex-England striker Ian Wright hardman Tommy Smith also Cruelly, a ruptured Achilles English shores next season. added: “He’s learning on the job in passed away. Scouser Smith, known as the His death, at 74, came little sustained in Chelsea’s 2-2 draw international football. There were “Anfield Iron”, scored in Liverpool’s more than three months after against Burnley at Stamford Bridge Hudson-Odoi appeared destined to things he did which were fantastic London-born Broadis played for first European Cup final win in the passing of fellow England on 22nd April brought about a join Sancho in Germany in January and there were things he did that Sunderland, Manchester City, 1977, when they beat Borussia international and Liverpool painful postscript to what had been as Bayern Munich circled for his were quite naïve.