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Steve Hill: You can’t top a Euros win!

It is with some difficulty that I type these words in the fug of a hangover following England’s dramatic semi-final victory over Denmark.

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Steve Hill
11 July 2021

Steve HILL
HILLY’S AWAY DAYS

IT is with some difficulty that I type these words in the fug of a hangover following England’s dramatic semi-final victory over Denmark.
It wasn’t the game itself that did for me, but the ill-advised decision to sit in my garden until dawn talking unadulterated drivel with a pair of idiots, the Wembley Arch flickering through the trees, silently goading us on.
Accordingly, I would like to apologise if there is any dip in the usual standard of column this week. As they say though: form is temporary, class is permanent. I was pleasantly reminded of this by being...

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