English comes home as players and fans prepare to return to Wembley in English

The 60,000 fans who can go to encourage Harry Kane, Raheem Sterling and the increasingly vibrant England team represent the largest crowd gathered in the UK since the start of the pandemic. England manager Gareth Southgate has been clear about how valuable it is to play at home in front of fans who can’t take part in any kind of match for so long. And if the mood against Germany last week was anything over thanks to a crowd of 41,000, fans won’t let the opportunity pass without hearing.

There are only a few tickets left for England – Denmark. Those that were on sale were cut off as soon as they were available last week, and on Monday a few hundred will be sold to members of the England Travel Supporters Club. There are currently around 8,500 tickets reserved for the match in England, but most of them have already been booked by ETSA members. It is clear that there are likely to be another 3,000 tickets on offer after Denmark has reduced its distribution to 5,000. These tickets can be brought to the attention of ETSA and FA that they are working with Uefa to finalize the final total and obtain new tickets. All ticket holders must present a negative coronavirus test in order to gain access to Wembley or provide evidence of two doses of vaccine 14 days prior to the game.

Southgate and his increasingly optimistic team know that on Wednesday, support for the entire country will be in the tens of millions. According to the BBC, the Ukrainian match had been the most watched live TV event of the year, surpassing the audience in 20 wins from Germany. The top of the TV audience was 20.9 million viewers, with 81.8% of available viewers tuned in and an average of 19.8 million viewers. In addition, 5.2 million streams were recorded on iPlayer and BBC Sports.

The largest audience ever recorded in the England match was the 25.2 million split between ITV and the BBC in England v. Due to an agreement between the two broadcasters, ITV is showing an exclusive semi-final. Just like the team itself, the commercial station has the potential to break the hood: of all the tournament matches that ITV has shown since 1998, three Lions have won only four times.

The Saturday night route served well-known scenes from fan areas across the country covering beer, an estimated 6 million pints sold by pubs at night. Although the arrests were made in central London after English fans began an impromptu party around Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square, Met police said the meetings were largely benevolent.

There were also more inspiring stories of new fans who could enjoy the game. Shaist Aziz’s Twitter chain, which works with the FA’s refugee and asylum seekers football network, celebrated the team’s inclusive ethos and how it made it easier for all fans to support England. Aziz posted a picture of him and his friends watching the match titled: Three hijab walks into the bar to see how three lions destroy Ukraine.

According to government sources, there are no plans to increase the number of fan parks available to socially distant crowds before the semi-finals.

While England are putting the nation behind them, Denmark has grabbed the tags of everyone else’s team. After the cardiac arrest of the most successful player, Christian Eriksen, the Danes have shown incredible collective strength in their first match against Finland, culminating in a 2-1 victory in the Czech Republic semi-final.

#LondonCalling is now the primary hashtag for the Danes, who play in their first international semi-final since winning the European Championship as a last-minute exchange in 1992. They have a strong record against their next opponents for losing only once against England in their last six races, a second-round match of the year 2002 World Championships in Japan.

With Denmark on the British government’s amber list and the Danes having to be quarantined for 10 days on arrival, fans can’t travel to the game. Instead, an attempt is being made to bring together British Danes to get to Wembley.

A tweet from Ronnie Hansen, director of commercial operations at the Danish FA, said a patriotic duty of all former shirts to be there. Now ALL Danes living in England are in a fight !, he wrote. Do you know Danish in England or Scotland? They have to move the torch from the best supporters in the world. There are a lot of tickets in Denmark in the UK and they have to go to AMOK !!