really good of you to give up your time just 50 minutes really good of you to give up your timejust 50 minutes before kick off. an awful lot of love for the england manager here. you have written the biography of the danish manager. how does he compare to garrett southgate? i manager. how does he compare to garrett southgate? manager. how does he compare to garrett southgate? i would say they com are in garrett southgate? i would say they compare in being garrett southgate? i would say they compare in being quite garrett southgate? i would say they compare in being quite modern i garrett southgate? i would say they compare in being quite modern in l compare in being quite modern in their compare in being quite modern in their approach to being a manager of a nationai their approach to being a manager of a national team and he took a lot of inspiration a national team and he took a lot of inspiration from how england in 2018 inspiration from how england in 2018 in the inspira
this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is. denmark fans gathering in copenhagen to watch their team take on england in the euro semi final. kick at wembley is injust in the euro semi final. kick at wembley is in just around ten minutes time. a prominent dutch journalist, known for investigating the criminal underworld, has been shot and seriously wounded on a street in central amsterdam. peter r de vries was shot minutes after leaving a tv studio, where he had appeared on a chat show. two men have been arrested, a 35 year old polish national, and another 21 year old man. they will face court on friday. anna holligan is in amsterdam. the netherlands most prominent investigative journalist was shot in the head. these tributes to peter r de vries are a testament to how much
playing their own national side. playing at wembley means england will feel the support, one said, but they ll feel the pressure, too. i always celebrate for england. every tournament, i really hope for english win. and every time, they disappoint me so much. so, tonight, i also hope they will disappoint me a little bit because then denmark will go to the final. mike is supporting england from here in copenhagen. his wife and children are supporting the other side. just alone at the moment. i trying to find some english fans| in copenhagen, just to bond a bit and then hopefully we can win the match tonight. euro 2020 has breached the banks of football here and filled this nation s soul. the underdogs who reached the semifinal by working as a team, and theirfans who dream of more. lucy williamson, bbc news, copenhagen. and there s been fighting talk
has not been successful for england, its right to say in major tournaments when it comes to semi finals have lost the last four and there s just this hope and expectation that england could get over the line but as we have been hearing you cannot underestimate the challenge denmark will face but theirformer winners of challenge denmark will face but their former winners of the tournament back in 1992 a couple players that played the premier as well who know what it s like to play in the stadium. the fa cup winner here not long ago and he will not be overwrought about the occasion. england tried to change the narrative around the team when it comes to major tournaments, so much disappointment and heartbreak with penalties or going out at the semi final stage and it seems as though gareth southgate has started to do that. and the way that they have achieved landmarks of this term is already winning their opening group game of the european championship and they had not done that before. o
so a lot of anticipation but the players say the pressure of making their first major final in 55 years is not getting to them. here s england s star striker, harry kane. we have a great opportunity to do it this year. we are not taking denmark lately by any means. we know they are a very tough team, they ve got some great players and obviously a great unit of a team as well. travellers coming from denmark to the uk currently need to isolate for ten days. meaning there wasn t enough time for fans to make it over in time for the game. this was the reaction from the coach after the last match. he told a danish newspaper. we hope borisjohnson wakes up and gives there will be some danish fans in the stadium. here are fans arriving.