12 Jul 2021

Football fans in Wellington react to Euro final

From Checkpoint, 5:43 pm on 12 July 2021

The curse of English football is back - the notorious penalty shootout has once again undone the team in the Euro football final.

It was a cruel end to a strong English campaign, and déjà vu for manager Gareth Southgate who in 1996 missed a crucial penalty sending the team tumbling from the Euro semis.

Hamish Cardwell joined hundreds of noisy - and mostly English - football fans at a packed Wellington pub for the match and filed this report.