Legend has it that thousands would watch some England games, singing raucously; that the feeling was similar to being inside a stadium. David Beckham celebrates with Wayne Rooney and Ashley Cole after scoring the goal against Ecuador that took England into the 2006 World Cup quarter-finals. Harry Kane scores England’s winning goal against Tunisia at the 2018 World Cup. During the last World Cup, Kane was sent a video clip from The Sirloin – since renamed The Dovecote. It came from a family friend who had watched many of those England games with Kane in his youth and it showed the riotous beer garden celebrations during the drubbing of Panama in the group stage.

Source: The Guardian June 08, 2021 11:02 UTC