NOTEBOOK: For English fan, Euro 2020 offers a sliver of hope
July 10, 2021 at 7:47 am
Marianne Hicks-Brisson jumps in the air as she poses for a photograph in the Kirby Estate adorned with English Cross of St. George flags in support of the England soccer team competing at the Euro 2020 soccer championships in Bermondsey, south London on June 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Tony Hicks)
LONDON (AP) — When I was much younger, a soccer anthem called “Three Lions” offered an exuberant cry. “Football’s coming home,” the lyrics went, after “30 years of hurt.”
That was a quarter century ago. Thirty years of hurt have become 55. And I have suffered all of them.